Pranav Hotkar
New Delhi, India - February 19, 2026 - Reliance Industries Limited has announced plans to invest about USD 110 billion to build large-scale artificial-intelligence data-center infrastructure in India, positioning the company to develop one of the country’s largest domestic compute ecosystems.
The investment, outlined by Chairman Mukesh Ambani at a national AI summit, will fund hyperscale and edge computing facilities designed to support training and deployment of advanced AI models across industries. The initiative aims to create sovereign computing capacity that keeps sensitive data and processing within India.
The company said the infrastructure program will combine centralized high-performance campuses with distributed edge nodes connected through the network of Reliance Jio. The architecture is intended to enable both large-model training and real-time inference services for enterprises and public-sector applications.
Reliance plans to build a multi-gigawatt data center complex in Jamnagar, Gujarat, with the first phase expected to bring approximately 120 MW of capacity online by 2026. The facilities will be powered by renewable energy as part of the group’s broader energy-transition strategy.
Executives said domestic AI infrastructure will help reduce dependence on overseas cloud regions and improve latency for applications such as digital services, financial analytics, healthcare systems, and manufacturing automation. The company also intends to provide computing platforms for startups and developers to build local AI applications.
Industry analysts note that AI workloads demand far greater power density and cooling capability than traditional cloud computing, pushing operators toward campus-scale developments backed by a dedicated energy supply. Companies globally are increasingly pairing telecommunications networks with compute infrastructure to support real-time AI services.
The announcement comes amid accelerating investment in AI data centers across India as enterprises and government agencies seek local processing capacity and regulatory compliance. Observers view the scale of the commitment as comparable to earlier nationwide telecom rollouts but focused on computing rather than connectivity.
If completed as planned, the initiative could establish India as a major regional AI infrastructure hub and enable domestic organizations to run advanced models locally rather than relying primarily on foreign cloud providers.
