- Mukesh Ambani’s addiction touches almost everyone in India in India
- Reliance plans to build a 3GW -Datacenter in India, the largest in the world
- Ambani has promised to use green and renewable energy to operate this giga -data center
Mukesh Ambanis Reliance Group, one of India’s largest and most influential conglomerates, develops a large -scale data center in Jamnagar – a small town in Gujarat already home to Reliance’s largest oil refining and petrochemical operations.
Reports from Bloomberg Data center requirements that can become the world’s largest are expected to reach a total capacity of 3 gigawatts, which significantly increases India’s current data center capacity estimated at less than 1 gigawatt.
It will make it five times the size of Microsoft’s 600 megawatts in Boydton, Virginia.
Operational by 2027
Nvidia will provide the Reliance Group de AI chips it needs for the project, which is coming at a time when tech companies are investing a lot in AI infrastructure. In the United States, Openai, Softbank and Oracle recently announced Project Stargate, an investment company of $ 500 billion, and Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Facebook that his company earmarked a capital cost of $ 65 billion it would cover a significant part of Manhattan. “
Reliance reportedly plans to operate the plant primarily with renewable energy and integrate it with its existing sun, wind and green hydrogen projects. However, Bloomberg believes that achieving a stable energy supply may require backup from fossil fuels or other sources.
Although a spokesman Bloomberg For previous comments from Mukesh Ambani’s son Akash, CEO of Reliance Jio InfoComm, who claimed the company is aiming to end the data center within 24 months.
With headquarters in Mumbai, Reliance was founded by Dhirubhai Ambani in 1966 as a small textile business. Over the course of decades, it expanded to petrochemicals, refining and other industries, and after Dhirubhai’s death in 2002, Mukesh took control of the company and led its transformation into a global power center.
Despite the success of the conglomerate, it is not clear how reliance will finance the $ 20 billion to $ 30 billion that the data center reportedly costs. Seam Bloomberg Remarks, “Reliance Industries Ltd., The Group’s Primary Listed Unit, has equivalent to about $ 26 billion on its balance.”
