Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries will build, power, and run a 168-megawatt AI data center in Jamnagar, and Meta will be its anchor tenant.
The two companies confirmed the partnership on Wednesday, June 10. Reliance takes on everything, design, build, power, connectivity, operations, and has committed to delivery within two years.
Zuckerberg called it "world-class" and said it would scale Meta's AI infrastructure globally while deepening the company's India investment. Not a cloud contract. Physical infrastructure has anchored Meta in India for decades.
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India Built the Conditions for This Deal
India's data center footprint has quadrupled since 2020, climbing from 375MW to 1.5GW by 2025, per government figures. Industry estimates project that figure could grow more than fivefold to over 8GW by 2030.
India's policy play was blunt and effective: zero taxes through 2047 for any hyperscaler running global workloads from Indian soil.
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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and now Meta have all announced major AI infrastructure bets in India within the past year. The incentive worked.
The Reliance Advantage: Six Years in the Making
The relationship started in 2020, when Meta put $5.7 billion into Jio Platforms, Ambani's telecom and digital services arm. Last year, the two companies launched a joint venture to bring Meta's open-source AI models to Indian enterprises and developers. The Jamnagar data center is the next layer on that foundation.
Reliance is not just a landlord here; it is a full infrastructure partner, providing design, construction, renewable power, connectivity, and ongoing operations under one agreement.
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Green Power, Seawater Cooling, and the Infrastructure Premium Meta is committed to covering all energy and water costs at the Jamnagar site. Power comes from renewables; cooling uses desalinated seawater, a geography-driven choice that also satisfies Meta's clean energy commitments.
Alongside the Jamnagar deal, Meta signed separate agreements with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy for close to 1GW of new renewable capacity across northern and southern India. Physical generation projects, not offsets. In a June 2 note, Nomura ranked India's data center sector among the world's fastest-growing. Cost efficiency relative to developed Asia-Pacific and Western markets is the core driver.
The financial terms of the Jamnagar deal remain undisclosed. Meta has not specified which AI workloads will run from the facility or whether it plans further India expansions. The direction is clear: Meta is moving AI compute closer to the billion-plus users it serves across South and Southeast Asia.
