OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-enabled data center capacity in the country, with plans to expand to 1 gigawatt. The move is part of a broader effort to deepen the company’s enterprise and infrastructure footprint in one of its fastest-growing markets.
OpenAI announced Thursday that its partnership with Tata Group is part of its Stargate project, which aims to build AI-enabled infrastructure and scale enterprise adoption globally. OpenAI will be the first customer for Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data center business starting with 100 MW of capacity. The deal also includes deployment of ChatGPT Enterprise across Tata’s workforce and standardization of AI-native software development through OpenAI’s tools.
This partnership, which falls under the ‘OpenAI for India’ initiative, highlights the company’s expansion in India. CEO Sam Altman recently estimated that India has more than 100 million weekly ChatGPT users, including students, teachers, developers, and entrepreneurs. The scale of deployment positions India as one of the most important growth markets for OpenAI, fueling corporate and infrastructure investment in the country.
Local data center capacity enables OpenAI to run cutting-edge models within India, meeting data residency, security, and compliance requirements for regulatory and government workloads while reducing latency for users. Hosting computing domestically is important for companies that handle sensitive data and operate under data localization and digital infrastructure rules. This situation could expand OpenAI’s access to enterprise customers that require domestic processing.
The initial 100 megawatts of capacity represents a significant commitment in the context of AI infrastructure, where large model training and inference require clusters of power-hungry graphics processing units (GPUs). If expanded to 1 gigawatt over time, the Tata facility will become the world’s largest AI-centric data center deployment, underscoring the scale of OpenAI’s long-term ambitions in India.
Beyond infrastructure, OpenAI and Tata Group will pursue a strategic corporate collaboration aimed at accelerating AI adoption across Tata’s businesses. The conglomerate plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to its workforce over the next few years, starting with hundreds of thousands of employees at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which will rank as the world’s largest enterprise AI deployment. TCS also plans to use OpenAI’s Codex tools to standardize AI-native software development across its engineering teams.
Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran said the OpenAI partnership will help build a “state-of-the-art AI infrastructure in India” while supporting efforts to train India’s workforce for the AI era.
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Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, including whether OpenAI would make a capital investment in HyperVault or lease capacity.
In November 2025, TCS secured support from private equity firm TPG to develop AI-enabled infrastructure under its HyperVault data center business in India. The platform is backed by a planned investment of approximately 180 billion rupees (approximately $2 billion) and is designed to support large-scale computing workloads for hyperscalers and enterprise customers.
OpenAI is expanding its certification program in India, with TCS becoming the first participating organization outside the US. The company says the certification is designed to help professionals build practical AI skills across roles and industries. The move follows OpenAI’s recent partnerships with leading engineering, medical and design institutions in India.
OpenAI plans to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year, deepening its operations in the country while building on its existing presence in New Delhi. The expansion is expected to support corporate partnerships, developer engagement, and local regulatory alignment as the company expands its footprint in India.
The announcement comes as India hosts the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The summit will bring together global AI leaders including Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google CEO Sundar Pichai along with Indian startups and corporates to showcase AI applications across sectors such as finance, healthcare and education.
OpenAI is expanding its presence in India through partnerships with companies such as Pine Labs, JioHotstar, Eternal, Cars24, HCLTech, PhonePe, CRED, and MakeMyTrip, aiming to embed its model across consumer platforms, enterprise systems, and digital payments infrastructure in one of the world’s largest internet markets.
The data center build-out, enterprise deployment, and partner ecosystem expansion mark OpenAI’s most comprehensive push to date to entrench advanced AI infrastructure and applications in India.
