Indian billionaire Ambani plans to set up world's largest data centre
Data centre at Jamnagar to have a total capacity of three gigawatts
January 24, 2025
Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group is planning to build what could become the world's largest data centre. The latest bid by the conglomerate seeks to capitalise on the ever-growing demand for artificial intelligence services.
Ambani is reportedly purchasing Nvidia Corp's powerful AI semiconductors and is planning to set up a data centre in Gujarat's Jamnagar.
The centre is expected to have a total capacity of three gigawatts, according to those in the know-how of the project, Bloomberg News reported. The three GW capacity would make it far bigger than any data centre in the world that is currently operating.
With this data centre, Ambani's Reliance is joining a growing cohort of tech companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon, that are pouring billions of dollars into the global AI services landscape.
A spokesperson from the Reliance group refused to comment but referred Bloomberg News to a recent speech from Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd CEO Akash Ambani where he mentioned building a data centre, with completion expected within two years.
"We want to complete it in true Jamnagar style in record time — as we have always done in Jamnagar — in 24 months," Akash had said.
Reliance Group aims to power the Jamnagar data centre with renewable energy as it is building a gigantic green energy complex which is spread over 5,000 acres with factories to produce photo-voltaic panels, fuel cell systems, green hydrogen, energy storage and wind turbines.
The largest data centres in the world currently are less than one GW making Ambani's new centre several times larger than those available in the market.
The biggest data centres by capacity are all located in the US and owned by tech tycoons. Microsoft has a data facility in Virginia standing at a capacity of almost 600 megawatts and another centre with 112 MW capacity under construction, according to DC Byte.
The Jamnagar facility would substantially boost India's data centre capacity, now estimated to be less than one GW.
Demand for data centre capacity all across the globe would increase and could triple by 2030 to reach an annual level of a whooping 219 GW, according to McKinsey & Co.
