NEW DELHI, Tue, 17 Feb 2026 — India’s Adani Group has announced plans to invest $100 billion over the next decade to develop renewable energy-powered, artificial intelligence-ready data centres, as the country accelerates efforts to strengthen its position in the global AI infrastructure landscape. The initiative, targeted for completion by 2035, aims to establish a sovereign energy and compute platform designed to support large-scale AI workloads and digital transformation.
The company said the project will integrate renewable energy generation with high-density computing infrastructure, creating a unified system where power production, grid resilience, and AI processing capacity are developed in parallel. The initiative builds on AdaniConnex’s existing two-gigawatt national data centre platform, with plans to expand capacity to five gigawatts, positioning India as a major global hub for AI-driven infrastructure.
Group Chairman Gautam Adani described the development as part of a broader global shift toward an intelligence-driven economy, noting that countries capable of aligning energy and computing infrastructure will define the next phase of technological leadership. The group aims to build a complete AI ecosystem spanning energy, data centres, cloud infrastructure, and advanced computing capabilities, reinforcing India’s ambition to move beyond consumption toward innovation and export of digital technologies.
The investment is expected to catalyse an additional $150 billion in related investments across server manufacturing, advanced electrical infrastructure, sovereign cloud platforms, and supporting industries, potentially creating a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the coming decade. The programme also includes collaboration with academic institutions to develop AI infrastructure engineering curricula, applied research labs, and national fellowship programmes to address talent shortages in advanced technology sectors.
Adani is advancing the initiative through partnerships with global technology companies, including collaborations with Google for a gigawatt-scale AI data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, alongside additional campuses in Noida, Hyderabad, and Pune developed in partnership with Microsoft. The group is also working with Flipkart to build AI infrastructure designed to support next-generation digital commerce and high-performance computing workloads.
Strategic connectivity through cable landing stations at Adani-operated ports is expected to enable low-latency global integration across major regions, while domestic manufacturing partnerships will support production of critical infrastructure components such as transformers, power electronics, and grid systems.
The announcement highlights intensifying global competition to secure AI computing capacity, as nations increasingly invest in large-scale digital infrastructure to support emerging technologies. Following the announcement, shares of Adani Enterprises rose approximately 2.5 percent, while Adani Green Energy gained around 1.8 percent on the benchmark Nifty 50 index.
