India’s Adani Group on Tuesday announced plans to invest $100 billion by 2035 to develop hyperscale, AI-ready data centres, in a move aimed at supporting New Delhi’s ambition to become a global artificial intelligence hub.
The announcement coincides with a five-day global AI summit in India, bringing together 20 national leaders and 45 ministerial-level delegations. Technology executives, including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Sundar Pichai of Google, are also expected to participate in key discussions focused on issues ranging from job disruption to child safety.
In a statement, the Adani Group said the $100 billion investment would catalyse an additional $150 billion in spending across server manufacturing, advanced electrical infrastructure, sovereign cloud platforms and related industries. It projected the initiative would help create a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the next decade.
The conglomerate said its strategy is anchored by partnerships with Google, which plans to establish a major data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, and Microsoft. It added that discussions are ongoing with other global firms seeking to set up large-scale AI campuses across the country.
India recently climbed to third place in a global AI competitiveness ranking compiled by Stanford University researchers, overtaking South Korea and Japan. However, analysts note that despite its infrastructure ambitions, India still faces significant challenges in matching the scale and dominance of the United States and China in artificial intelligence.
