- Mikesh Abani’s trust plays almost everyone in India
- Reliance plans to build a 3GW data center in India, the largest in the world
- ABANI has pledged to use green and renewable energy to feed this Giga Data Center
The Reliance Group of Mikesh Ambani, one of the largest and most influential conglomerates in India, is developing a large -scale data center in Jamnagar, a small city in Gujarat that is already home to the main oil refining operations and Petrochemicals of Reliance.
Reports of Bloomberg The data center is expected to become the largest in the world, it reaches a total capacity of 3 gigawatts, which significantly increases the current capacity of the Indian data center, which is estimated in less than 1 gigavatio.
That will be done by the size of the 600 megawatts of Microsoft in Boydton, Virginia.
Operation for 2027
NVIDIA will provide a confidence group with the AI chips that it needs for the project, which arrives at a time when technology companies are strongly investing in AI infrastructure. In the US, OpenAi, Softbank and Oracle recently announced the Stargate project, an investment company of $ 500 billion, and the Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said on Facebook that his company was marking an expense expense of spending from Capital of $ 65 billion in 2025 and “building a large 2GW+ data center would cover an important part of Manhattan.”
According to reports, Reliance plans to feed the installation mainly with renewable energy, integrating it with its existing solar, wind and green projects. However, Bloomberg He believes that achieving a stable energy supply may require a backup copy of fossil fuels or other sources.
Although a spokesman for Reliance refused to provide more details about the Jamnagar project, they did. Bloomberg To previous comments from the son of Mikesh Ambani, Akash, CEO of Reliance Jio Infocomm, who said that the company aims to complete the data center within 24 months.
Based in Mumbai, Reliance was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in 1966 as a small textile business. Throughout the decades, it expanded to petrochemicals, refining and other industries, and after the death of Dhirubhai in 2002, Mikesh took control of the company and directed its transformation into a global power.
Despite the success of the conglomerate, it is not clear how Reliance will finance the $ 20 billion to $ 30 billion, according to the reports, the data center will cost. As Bloomberg The notes, “Reliance Industries Ltd., the main quoted entity of the group, has the equivalent of approximately $ 26 billion in its balance sheet.”
