{"id":288672,"date":"2026-02-17T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288672\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:07:08","slug":"adani-pledges-100b-to-build-ai-data-centers-as-india-seeks-bigger-role-in-the-global-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288672\/","title":{"rendered":"Adani pledges $100B to build AI data centers as India seeks bigger role in the global AI race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian conglomerate Adani Group said on Monday it would invest $100 billion over the next decade to build data centers specialized for AI across the country, a move that underscores India\u2019s ambition to play a larger role in the global AI race.<\/p>\n

The investment, which will run through 2035, is aimed at building renewable-energy-powered data centers designed to support AI workloads, the company said. It expects the plan to catalyze an additional $150 billion in related investments and result in a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the decade.<\/p>\n

Adani is making this commitment against a backdrop of skyrocketing investments in AI infrastructure<\/a> as companies increasingly look beyond the U.S. for computing power, energy, and friendly regulation. India, with its expanding digital economy and growing renewable-energy capacity, has emerged as a major destination for data centers<\/a> and AI-related infrastructure<\/a> over the past couple of years.<\/p>\n

The announcement coincides with India\u2019s ongoing AI Impact Summit<\/a> in New Delhi this week, where leaders from some of the world\u2019s top AI companies, including OpenAI, Nvidia, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google, are meeting policymakers and industry executives.<\/p>\n

Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani (pictured above) described the plan as a long-term bet on the convergence of energy and computing. \u201cIndia will not be a mere consumer in the AI age,\u201d he said, adding that the group aims to help build a domestic AI infrastructure base.<\/p>\n

The plan is to build atop Adani\u2019s own existing data-center platform and its partnerships with companies like Google and Microsoft. The conglomerate is developing large-scale AI data-center campuses in Visakhapatnam<\/a> and Noida, and has plans for more facilities in Hyderabad and Pune. An expanded partnership with Walmart-owned Flipkart will focus on another AI data center.<\/p>\n

Adani said the broader plan calls for deploying up to 5 gigawatts of data-center capacity. The company said the facilities will be developed as a unified system that would scale power generation and processing capacity in parallel.<\/p>\n

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The effort builds on AdaniConneX, a joint venture between Adani Enterprises and U.S.-based EdgeConneX, a developer and operator of data centers for hyperscale and enterprise customers. The JV, Adani said, has already developed about 2 gigawatts of data-center capacity across India.<\/p>\n

Central to the strategy is Adani\u2019s renewable-energy portfolio, which the group said will supply carbon-neutral power to the data centers. The company pointed to its 30-gigawatt Khavda renewable project in western India \u2014 more than 10 gigawatts of which is already operational \u2014 and said it plans to invest an additional $55 billion to expand renewable generation and battery energy storage over the coming years.<\/p>\n

To reduce exposure to global supply-chain disruptions, Adani said it plans to co-invest in domestic manufacturing of critical components, such as transformers, power electronics and thermal management systems.<\/p>\n

Adani did not respond to questions about how much of the $100 billion investment is already committed capital, how the spending will be phased over the coming years, and when the first large-scale AI workloads are expected to become operational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian conglomerate Adani Group said on Monday it would invest $100 billion over the next decade to build…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[160377,104606,365,11883,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-288672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adani","9":"tag-adani-group","10":"tag-ai","11":"tag-ai-data-centers","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288672","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=288672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}