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By Urvi Dugar and Abinaya V<\/p>\n

Feb 17 (Reuters) – Adani Enterprises (ADANIENT.NS<\/a>) said on Tuesday that it will invest $100 billion to build renewable-powered AI-ready data centres by 2035, positioning India as \u200ca contender in the global AI race.<\/p>\n

India has seen a surge in big-ticket AI infrastructure spending, \u200cwith global players like Google, Amazon, Meta Platforms and Microsoft<\/a> ramping up investments along with domestic companies such as Reliance and \u200bTCS.<\/p>\n

“AI-ready data centres would be a critical nerve centre of the AI-driven environment and it’s natural that large groups with deep pockets will get future-ready by setting up such data centres,” said Ambareesh Baliga, an independent market analyst.<\/p>\n

Top firms, including Reliance and the Adani Group, are moving quickly to capture the vast opportunities as \u200cbusinesses align themselves with what is seen \u2060as a major disruptor ahead, he added.<\/p>\n

Adani said that the investment is expected to trigger an additional $150 billion across related industries including server manufacturing and sovereign cloud \u2060platforms. Together, this is projected to create a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the decade, it added.<\/p>\n

Shares of Adani Enterprises closed 2.7% higher, making the stock the top gainer on the benchmark Nifty 50 index.<\/p>\n

Having been \u200bon the periphery of the AI boom so far \u200bdue to the absence of any significant \u200cchip manufacturing capability, data centres represent India’s best chance of making a mark on the global stage.<\/p>\n

The investment will develop a model linking renewable energy, power grid resilience and AI computing, according to Adani.<\/p>\n

“For decades, we imported technology. Now we are building the backbone,” Chairman Gautam Adani said in a post on X.<\/p>\n

“India will not follow the AI century. India will shape it”.<\/p>\n

The ports-to-power conglomerate will build on its existing \u200c2 gigawatt data centre capacity and scale it to 5 \u200bGW to create the world’s largest integrated data centre platform, \u200bit said, without providing a timeline.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Adani \u200bwill invest $55 billion to expand its renewable energy portfolio, which will include one of \u200cthe world’s largest battery energy storage systems.<\/p>\n

Adani \u200bhas an existing partnership \u200bwith Google (GOOG<\/a>), which has pledged to invest $15 billion over five years to build an AI data centre, its biggest ever investment in India.<\/p>\n

The company said on Tuesday it will expand its existing \u200bpartnership with Walmart-backed Flipkart to develop \u200ca second AI data centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Urvi Dugar and Abinaya V Feb 17 (Reuters) – Adani Enterprises (ADANIENT.NS) said on Tuesday that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[160270,104606,365,363,364,8189,49143,143800,160271,2344,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-288294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adani-enterprises","9":"tag-adani-group","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-data-centres","14":"tag-gautam-adani","15":"tag-global-ai-race","16":"tag-global-players","17":"tag-india","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}