
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance plans to build the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a 3-gigawatt capacity to support rising AI demand. Manish Singh of TechCrunch reports the $20-$30 billion project, which will dwarf Microsoft’s 600-megawatt data center, will be powered by renewable energy from a nearby green energy complex, with Nvidia providing chips. This comes as major players like OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle invest in AI infrastructure globally. Singh writes:
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is planning to build what could become the world’s largest data center in Jamnagar, India, with a capacity of 3 gigawatts to capitalize on surging AI demand.
The facility would dwarf the current largest data center, Microsoft’s 600-megawatt site in Virginia, Bloomberg reported Friday. The project could cost between $20 billion and $30 billion, the report added. […]
Nvidia is selling Ambani chips for the data center, the report added. Nvidia and Reliance announced a partnership to build infrastructure for AI applications in India in October.
The Jamnagar project comes as OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle this week pledged up to $500 billion for AI infrastructure in the United States through their Stargate Project.
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