New Delhi, February 19 The conglomerates run by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani have committed USD 210 billion in investment to create infrastructure that will help India emerge as an AI development hub.
At the India AI Impact Summit, Ambani announced an investment of Rs 10 lakh crore (approximately USD 110 billion) in artificial intelligence over the next seven years, focusing on building gigawatt-scale AI-ready data centres in Jamnagar, leveraging up to 10 GW of surplus green power, and establishing a nationwide edge-compute layer integrated with telecom and digital operator Jio's networks to deliver low-latency AI across India.
"Our commitment is clear: make intelligence as ubiquitous as connectivity," he said. "When compute becomes infrastructure, innovation will become inevitable."
Adani, on the other hand, unveiled a USD 100-billion investment to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035 – one of the world's largest integrated energy-compute commitments.
The initiative is expected to catalyze an additional USD 150 billion across server manufacturing, cloud platforms, and supporting industries, creating a projected USD 250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India.
India must build its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure rather than relying on imports, Adani Group executive director Jeet Adani said on Thursday, warning that AI will redefine national sovereignty.
Other major investments announced at the Summit included a USD 50 billion commitment by Microsoft by the end of the decade to expand artificial intelligence access across the Global South. "India, unsurprisingly, is one of the largest," its vice chair and president, Brad Smith, said.
The firm had unveiled a USD 17.5 billion investment in AI investments in India last year.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new subsea cable initiative to boost AI connectivity between India, the US, and other locations, alongside partnerships for cloud infrastructure platform support to over 20 million public servants across 800 districts.
Yotta Data Services, backed by a real estate group headed by Niranjan Hiranandani, announced over USD 2 billion in spending on Nvidia's latest chips in an artificial intelligence computing hub it is setting up just outside the national capital.
While Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) signed up OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, as its first customer for its data centre unit under the global AI infrastructure initiative Stargate, infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro announced a proposed venture with Nvidia to build AI-ready data centre infrastructure, advanced computing platforms, and ecosystem enablement required to support large-scale AI workloads.
