Adani Group, led by billionaire Gautam Adani, has announced plans to invest up to $100 billion to build integrated, renewable-energy-powered AI data centers in India by 2035. The initiative aims to establish a “sovereign energy and compute platform” that will position India as a global exporter of intelligence rather than merely a consumer.
This commitment is expected to contribute an additional $150 billion to the broader ecosystem, including server manufacturing, sovereign cloud services and advanced power infrastructure, bringing the total economic impact to approximately $250 billion over the next decade.
Moving away from the traditional data center model, Adani’s roadmap creates an integrated architecture where green power generation and high-density processing are developed in parallel.
- scale: The group is expanding its AdaniConneX platform from 2 GW to 5 GW target, aiming to create the world’s largest integrated data center platform.
- Power: The compute clusters will be supported by Adani Green Energy’s massive 30 GW Khavda project.
- Investment: An additional $55 billion has been earmarked to expand the group’s renewable portfolio and build one of the world’s largest battery storage systems (BESS).
Strategic Partnership and Sovereignty
This approach is dictated by the historic collaboration with Google for the gigawatt-scale campus in Visakhapatnam and Microsoft for the facilities in Hyderabad and Pune. Additionally, Adani is deepening its tie-up with Flipkart to develop a second high-performance AI data centre.
“The world is entering a deeper intelligence revolution than any previous industrial revolution,” Chairman Gautam Adani said in a statement. He emphasized that mastering the “symmetry between energy and computation” is vital for national sovereignty.
To ensure a self-reliant supply chain, the group will co-invest in domestic manufacturing for critical components such as high capacity transformers and liquid cooling systems. Additionally, a portion of the GPU capacity will be reserved exclusively for Indian startups and research institutes to boost the local deep-tech ecosystem.