Pranav Hotkar
Menlo Park, California, and Mumbai, India - June 09, 2026 - Meta has partnered with Reliance Industries to develop its first AI-enabled data center deployment in India, marking a major expansion of the company’s infrastructure footprint in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital and AI markets.
Under the agreement, Reliance will build a 168 MW AI-ready data center facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat, which Meta will lease with options to scale capacity further over time. The project forms part of Reliance’s broader hyperscale infrastructure expansion and is expected to become a key component of Meta’s global AI infrastructure network.
Meta said the facility will support the company’s growing AI compute requirements while bringing infrastructure closer to its rapidly expanding user base in India. The company described India as one of its largest and fastest-growing digital markets globally.
“We’re proud to be working with Reliance to build our first AI-enabled data center in India,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in the announcement, describing the project as part of Meta’s broader AI infrastructure expansion strategy.
Reliance said the Jamnagar site will be powered by renewable energy and cooled using desalinated seawater, reflecting the increasing industry focus on sustainable infrastructure for power-intensive AI workloads. Meta confirmed it will cover the full energy and water costs associated with the facility’s operations.
The project further strengthens the longstanding partnership between Meta and Reliance, which began with Meta’s USD 5.7 billion investment in Jio Platforms in 2020. Last year, the companies also announced a joint venture focused on developing enterprise AI solutions in India using Meta’s open-source Llama models.
The Jamnagar campus is expected to become part of one of the world’s largest AI-focused digital infrastructure developments. Reliance has been aggressively expanding its AI ambitions, with Chairman Mukesh Ambani recently outlining plans to invest approximately INR 10 trillion over seven years to build India’s AI ecosystem and sovereign compute infrastructure.
The announcement comes as India rapidly emerges as a major AI infrastructure destination. Global operators, including AirTrunk, Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Adani Group, are all expanding hyperscale and AI-ready infrastructure across the country amid soaring demand for cloud services and accelerated computing capacity.
Industry analysts increasingly view India as a strategic long-term AI infrastructure market because of its large digital economy, growing enterprise AI adoption, and expanding renewable energy capacity. Data center demand in the country is projected to grow sharply over the next decade as AI workloads drive higher compute density and electricity consumption.
The Meta-Reliance agreement also highlights how global AI infrastructure expansion is becoming closely tied to long-term energy partnerships, subsea connectivity, and sovereign digital infrastructure strategies. Alongside the data center project, Meta announced renewable energy agreements totaling nearly 1 GW with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy to support its expanding infrastructure operations in India.
