Indian conglomerate Adani Group said on Monday it will invest $100 billion over the next 10 years to build AI-focused data centers across the country, a move that confirms India’s ambitions to play a bigger role in the global AI race.
The investment will run through 2035 and is aimed at building renewable energy-powered data centers designed to support AI workloads, the company said. We expect this plan to drive an additional $150 billion in related investments, creating a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over 10 years.
Adani’s efforts come at a time when investment in AI infrastructure is surging as companies increasingly look outside the United States for computing power, energy and friendly regulations. India has emerged as a leading destination for data centers and AI-related infrastructure in recent years due to its expanding digital economy and growing renewable energy capacity.
The announcement coincides with India’s ongoing AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, where leaders from the world’s top AI companies, including OpenAI, Nvidia, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google, are meeting with policymakers and industry executives.
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani (pictured above) said the plan is a long-term bet on the convergence of energy and computing. “India will no longer be just a consumer in the AI era,” he said, adding that the group aims to help build the country’s AI infrastructure base.
The plan is to build on Adani’s own existing data center platform and partnerships with companies such as Google and Microsoft. The conglomerate has developed large AI data center campuses in Visakhapatnam and Noida and has plans to build more facilities in Hyderabad and Pune. The expanded partnership with Walmart-owned Flipkart will focus on another AI data center.
Adani said the broader plan calls for the deployment of up to 5 gigawatts of data center capacity. The company said these facilities will be developed as integrated systems that will expand generation and processing capacity in parallel.
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The initiative is based on AdaniConneX, a joint venture between Adani Enterprises and US-based EdgeConneX, a developer and operator of data centers for hyperscale and enterprise customers. Adani said the joint venture has already developed about 2 gigawatts of data center capacity across India.
Central to this strategy is Adani’s renewable energy portfolio, which the group says will provide carbon-neutral power to its data centres. The company said it plans to invest an additional $55 billion to expand renewable power generation and battery energy storage over the next few years, citing the 30 GW Kavda renewable energy project in western India, of which more than 10 GW is already operational.
Adani said it plans to co-invest in domestic manufacturing of critical components such as transformers, power electronics and thermal management systems to reduce exposure to global supply chain disruptions.
Adani did not respond to questions about how much of the $100 billion investment is already committed capital, how the spending will be phased in over the next few years, or when the first large-scale AI workloads are expected to go live.
