Reliance Industries Limited announced a partnership with Meta Platforms, Inc. for a data centre project in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Reliance Industries Limited will develop a data center with 168 MW capacity to be delivered within two years, with an option to scale. This is the first built-to-suit data centre capacity in India for Meta and represents a significant milestone in India?s emergence as a global hub for AI infrastructure.

Meta will lease capacity from the facility. The data center will serve Meta?s global infrastructure, supporting its core business and AI compute needs. Under the agreement, Reliance Industries Limited will provide comprehensive end-to-end services spanning the entire lifecycle of the data centre ?

from design and construction to the ongoing management of utilities, renewable power supply, network connectivity, and fully managed operational services. The strategic location in Gujarat offers significant advantages for large-scale data centre operations, including delivery capability, renewable energy, water availability, proximity to India?s western submarine cable landing stations and Jio?s extensive fibre network. The data center will be powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater.

This partnership is aligned with the Government of India's priorities which designate data centres as strategic national infrastructure and introduces a long-term policy framework to attract global AI infrastructure investment into India.