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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has entered into an agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc. for a information centre task successful Jamnagar, Gujarat.
RIL volition make a information centre with 168 MW capableness to beryllium delivered wrong 2 years, with an option to scale, the institution said successful a statement.
“This is the archetypal built-to-suit information centre capableness successful India for Meta and represents a significant milestone successful India’s emergence arsenic a planetary hub for AI infrastructure “ the institution said.
“Meta volition lease capacity from the facility, marking a important milestone successful Meta’s planetary infrastructure enlargement and deepening the long-standing strategical concern with Reliance — 1 that spans connectivity, commerce, and AI innovation successful 1 of the world’s astir dynamic integer market,” it added.
The data centre, it said, volition service Meta’s planetary infrastructure, supporting its halfway concern and AI compute needs, underscoring India’s increasing relation successful the worldwide integer and AI ecosystem. Under the agreement, RIL volition supply broad end-to-end services spanning the entire life rhythm of the information centre – from plan and operation to the ongoing absorption of utilities, renewable powerfulness supply, web connectivity, and afloat managed operational services.
“This positions RIL arsenic a single-window solutions supplier for hyperscale AI infrastructure successful India,” the institution said.
The information centre volition beryllium powered by renewable vigor and cooled with desalinated seawater, “demonstrating some RIL’s and Meta’s committedness to sustainability”.
Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, RIL said, “This concern with Meta marks a transformative infinitesimal for India’s digital infrastructure. Building India’s archetypal built-to-suit information centre for a planetary exertion person of Meta’s standard demonstrates India’s readiness to beryllium astatine the forefront of the planetary AI revolution.”
“We are committed to gathering world-class integer infrastructure that volition powerfulness the adjacent procreation of AI innovation – not conscionable for India, but for the world. Jamnagar volition go a landmark destination for hyperscale AI computing, and we are arrogant to spouse with Meta to make this imaginativeness a reality,” helium added.
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Meta, said, “We’re arrogant to beryllium moving with Reliance to physique our archetypal AI-enabled information centre successful India. This world-class installation successful Jamnagar volition help us standard our AI infrastructure globally portion deepening our semipermanent concern successful India’s economy.”
