Meta is bringing part of its AI infrastructure buildout to India through a new data center agreement with Reliance Industries.
The deal gives Meta leased capacity at a 168 MW AI-enabled data center that Reliance will build in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The companies did not disclose the value of the agreement, the specific AI workloads that will run at the site, or whether Meta plans additional AI data center deals in India.
According to Meta’s announcement, the Jamnagar facility will be Meta’s first AI-enabled data center in India. Reliance will build the facility, and Meta will lease the capacity with options to scale.
The agreement expands a long-running partnership between Meta and Reliance. Meta invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms in 2020, and the companies later formed a $100 million joint venture focused on enterprise AI solutions in India and overseas markets, according to TechCrunch.
The new agreement moves that relationship deeper into physical infrastructure. Reliance will provide services that include design, construction, renewable power, connectivity, and operations.
Meta said the facility will be powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater, and that it will cover the full cost of the energy and water supporting its operations there.
Meta is also contracting nearly 1 GW of new renewable energy capacity in India through agreements with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy. The company said that includes 837 MW of new solar and wind projects from CleanMax and 88 MW from Fourth Partner Energy.
The India deal also fits Meta’s broader push to secure more AI computing capacity as model development and product demand rise. It keeps the focus on APAC infrastructure growth without turning the Jamnagar announcement into a full regional forecast.
The site is meant to support Meta’s global infrastructure and AI computing requirements, making the announcement larger than a local capacity expansion.
The timing reflects India’s growing role in AI and cloud infrastructure. TechCrunch noted that Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI, and Uber have all recently announced AI or cloud infrastructure investments in the country.
India has also offered tax exemptions through 2047 for foreign cloud providers that run overseas workloads from Indian data centers.
That policy backdrop helps explain why Jamnagar matters, but the confirmed story remains narrower than a full national infrastructure forecast. Meta is not saying how much the agreement is worth, what models or services will use the facility, or how much capacity it may lease beyond the first phase.
For Meta, the agreement gives the company another route to expand AI compute closer to one of its largest user markets. For Reliance, it positions Jamnagar as part of the AI infrastructure layer behind global platforms, not just domestic digital services.
The companies are also leaving some important details for later. Until they disclose the deal value, deployment timeline, and workloads, the Jamnagar project is best read as a strategic infrastructure step rather than a complete picture of Meta’s India AI plans.
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