Adani Group Pledges $100B for Green AI Data Centers
India's Adani Group will invest $100 billion by 2035 in Artificial Intelligence data center infrastructure powered by renewable energy. The investment aims to build out significant capacity for AI and cloud services while aligning with sustainability goals. This represents one of the largest single commitments to green digital infrastructure globally.
- The investment will expand the existing 2 GW data center platform, operated through the AdaniConnex joint venture, to a target of 5 GW of national capacity by 2035. - This initiative is framed as a strategy for India's "technological sovereignty," with Adani Group's chairman, Gautam Adani, stating the goal is for India to be a "creator, builder, and exporter of intelligence." - The project includes partnerships with major hyperscalers, including a gigawatt-scale AI data center campus with Google in Visakhapatnam and additional campuses with Microsoft in Hyderabad and Pune. - To power the data centers, Adani Green Energy will draw on its 30 GW Khavda renewable project, with an additional $55 billion committed to expanding the company's renewable energy portfolio. - The plan aims to vertically integrate renewable power generation, transmission, and high-density AI compute, a model designed to sidestep grid connection delays that are slowing data center development in North America and Europe. - A significant portion of the platform's GPU capacity will be reserved for Indian AI startups, research institutions, and deep-tech entrepreneurs to address domestic compute shortages. - Adani's investment is projected to catalyze an additional $150 billion across the supply chain, including server manufacturing and sovereign cloud platforms, creating a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem over the next decade.
