Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced an AI-centric partnership with Meta. On Wednesday, RIL said it would be developing a 168 megawatts AI-focussed data centre for Meta. The project is expected to take two years to complete.
Jamnagar, the Ambani-favourite industrial town spanning over 2,250 miles in the state of Gujarat, has been selected to host this facility. Meta will be leasing the capacity from RIL to support its core business and AI compute needs.
From design and construction to utilities management, power supply, and network connectivity — the RIL will oversee the project end-to-end, it announced. The move will position the Ambani-led conglomerate as India’s first provider for hyperscale AI infrastructure.
Ambani, 69, commented on the development saying the deal will testify India’s readiness to participate in the global AI evolution.
“Building India’s first built-to-suit data centre for a global technology leader of Meta’s scale demonstrates India’s readiness to be at the forefront of the global AI revolution,” said the billionaire, with the net worth of over $86 billion as of Wednesday, according to Forbes.
The Indian government is looking to rope-in AI infrastructure investments into the country and elevate its data centre clusters as strategic national infrastructures.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed an optimistic excitement in tapping India for its data centre.
“This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us scale our AI infrastructure globally while deepening our long-term investment in India’s economy,” Zuckerberg said. “We’re proud to be working with Reliance to build our first AI-enabled data center in India.”
For Meta, its next big project under research and development is artificial superintelligence (ASI). Essentially, this technology will be created to perform tasks and take decisions more efficiently than humans and existing AI systems.
Zuckerberg plans to build a cluster of AI data centres through the late 2020s scaling to “hundreds of gigawatts or more”. Project Prometheus, the first of Meta’s AI data centres with over 1GW capacity, is likely to go live within this year in New Albany, Ohio. Other locations where Meta is building similar facilities in the U.S. include Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, and Oklahoma among others.
In terms of India, the country is presently leaps and bounds behind outer nations in terms of regulating advanced technologies like AI and crypto, its pool of engineering talent is what keeps attracting international players.
The RIL, that holds the majority stake in India’s largest telco Jio, has repeatedly been making it to the headlines for its AI-related announcements.
Last year in October, for instance, Google entered a partnership with Reliance to offer free AI Pro acces to Jio users in India.
Earlier this year, Ambani reportedly joined other Indian industrial heavyweights like Gautam Adani and the Tata conglomerate to plan upto $110 Billion investment in India’s AI ecosystem.
In January 2026, Ambani launched Jio’s own AI platform dubbed to let people engage with the technology in local languages. The platform was first made available in Ambani’s native state of Gujarat.
