Meta will fully fund energy and water for its 168 MW AI data center in Gujarat, built by Reliance. The Jamnagar facility, 6x smaller than Google-Adani's Andhra project, connects directly to Meta's Project Waterworth subsea cable. This secures dedicated AI infrastructure for Meta without Reliance pursuing its own large language models yet.
How We Got Here
Reliance incorporated its wholly-owned AI subsidiary, Reliance Intelligence Limited, in September 2025 to expand into deep tech. This new Meta partnership follows Mukesh Ambani's recent pledge to invest Rs 10 trillion in AI initiatives.
The Numbers
- Meta's facility in Jamnagar will use renewable energy and desalinated seawater for cooling.
- Project Waterworth, Meta's subsea cable system, spans over 50,000 km across five continents with 24 fiber cables.
- Google is concurrently building a 1 GW hyperscale AI data center with AdaniConneX and Airtel in Andhra Pradesh.
- Reliance's Rs 10 trillion AI investment announced in 2026 is 96 times the central government's IndiaAI Mission budget.
- The IndiaAI Mission has utilized only Rs 400 crore of its Rs 10,000 crore budget as of 2025-26.
What Happens Next
🇮🇳 Why This Matters for India
For deep tech founders and AI engineers in Hyderabad, these hyperscale data centers in Jamnagar and Andhra Pradesh provide essential, low-latency compute resources to train next-gen models.
The Take
Reliance is positioning itself as the infrastructure enabler for global AI giants, rather than a direct competitor in LLMs, which is a smarter, lower-risk play for now. Meta secures dedicated, custom-spec AI compute linked directly to its global subsea cables — critical for truly pushing its own AI roadmap, regardless of size.
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