Adani Group will spend $100 billion on vast AI data centres by 2035, the biggest such promise India has seen, and it wants everyone to notice.
The energy and logistics conglomerate says the buildout will give India the computing capacity to train local large language models while keeping homegrown data stored locally.
Tech bosses and politicians piling into India for a global AI summit that New Delhi hopes will stop the rich world hogging the rules.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “shape solutions not just for India but for the world!” in a social media post on 16 February 2026.
Adani Group says it will lean on partnerships with Google and Microsoft, pushing its data centre ambition to five gigawatts from its current two-gigawatt plan via a joint venture with Virginia-based EdgeConneX.
It is also touting a beefed-up relationship with Flipkart and a second AI data centre to support the Walmart-owned retailer’s digital commerce operations.
US tech giants are already treating India like a growth buffet. Google announced a $15 billion data centre and undersea cable plan in October, and Microsoft followed in December with a $17.5 billion pledge.
The hype comes with awkward physics. AI data centres guzzle power and water, and India already has erratic supplies, and this problem is expected to worsen as heat stress rises.
India’s per capita electricity use is low, household demand is expected to surge as incomes climb, and data centres require steady, round-the-clock power that renewables still struggle to guarantee quickly.
Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani said: “Nations that master the symmetry between energy and compute will shape the next decade. India is uniquely positioned to lead.”
