India’s Adani Group today (February 17) announced that it plans to invest $100 billion over the next decade to build renewable energy-powered, artificial intelligence (AI)-ready data centres, as the country seeks to strengthen its position in the global artificial intelligence race.
The conglomerate said the initiative, targeted for completion by 2035, plans to fuel the data centres with renewable energy and establish a long-term sovereign energy and compute platform. It will be designed to position India as a global leader in the digital transformation race.
"The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound than any previous Industrial Revolution," remarked the Group Chairman Gautam Adani.
"Nations that master the symmetry between energy and compute will shape the next decade. India is uniquely positioned to lea," he stated.
"At Adani, we are building on our foundation in data centres and green energy to expand into the complete five-layer AI stack focused on India’s technological sovereignty. India will not be a mere consumer in the AI age. We will be the creators, the builders and the exporters of intelligence and we are proud to be able to participate in that future," he added.
Adani said its direct investment is one of the world’s largest commitments and hopes to catalyse an additional $150 billion ‘intelligence ecosystem’ over the next decade across server manufacturing, advanced electrical infrastructure, sovereign cloud platforms and supporting industries.
In total, the initiative is expected to create a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the next decade.
The announcement underscores intensifying global competition to develop computing infrastructure capable of supporting advanced AI workloads, which require vast amounts of power and data capacity. India has been stepping up efforts to attract investment into digital infrastructure as governments and corporations race to secure leadership in next-generation technologies.
The company’s roadmap builds on AdaniConnex’s existing two-gigawatt (2GW) national data centre and will expand towards a 5GW target that positions India at the centre of the global AI economy, said the company in its statement.
Adani is eyeing the 5GW deployment to create the world’s largest integrated data centre platform that combines renewable power generation, transmission infrastructure and hyperscale AI compute within a single coordinated infrastructure.
Unlike conventional expansions, the programme has been designed as a unified system where generation, grid resilience and high-density processing capacity are developed in parallel.
Working with leading academic institutions, the Adani Group will establish specialised AI Infrastructure Engineering curricula, applied AI research labs focused on energy and logistics and a national fellowship program to address the growing skills gap.
This long-term commitment by the Adani Group establishes one of the world’s most ambitious integrated energy and AI infrastructure platforms ever undertaken at national scale. The Adani Group invites global technology companies, sovereign institutions and innovation partners to participate and collaborate in building India’s next-generation AI infrastructure platform.
Adani is actualising this via strong partnerships with Google to establish the nation’s largest gigawatt-scale AI data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, in addition to campuses in Noida and with Microsoft across Hyderabad and Pune, it stated.
Likewise, the Adani Group is in discussion with other major industry players as it seeks to establish large-scale campuses across India, as it hopes to cement its position as India’s premier AI infrastructure partner, said the statement.
The company said it is also deepening its partnership with Flipkart to work towards developing a second AI data centre purpose-built to support Flipkart’s next-generation digital commerce, high-performance computing (HPC) and large-scale AI workloads.
Strategic connectivity through cable landing stations, including at Adani’s network of ports, will ensure low-latency global integration with the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, Adani said.
The company is also co-investing in domestic manufacturing partnerships of critical infrastructure components. These include high-capacity transformers, advanced power electronics, grid systems, inverters and industrial thermal management solutions, he added.
Following the announcement, shares of Adani Enterprises, the group’s flagship company, rose about 2.5%, placing it among the top gainers on the benchmark Nifty 50 index. Shares of Adani Green Energy were last up roughly 1.8%.-TradeArabia News Service
