Reliance, Adani, Microsoft, Yotta, TCS and L&T unveil mega investments as New Delhi positions itself as a global AI powerhouse
India’s ambitions to become a global artificial intelligence hub received a massive boost at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, with domestic conglomerates and global technology majors collectively pledging over $260 billion in AI and data infrastructure investments over the coming decade.
The announcements, made at the summit in New Delhi, signal a decisive shift toward large-scale AI infrastructure buildout spanning data centers, advanced computing platforms, renewable-powered facilities, and global cloud partnerships.
Reliance Industries and its telecom arm Jio said they will invest $109.8 billion over the next seven years to build artificial intelligence and data infrastructure across India. Chairman Mukesh Ambani described the move as foundational to creating a nationwide AI backbone spanning compute, storage, and connectivity.
The investment marks one of the largest private sector AI infrastructure commitments globally and is expected to significantly expand India’s domestic data processing capacity.
The Adani Group announced plans to invest $100 billion by 2035 to develop renewable energy-powered AI data centres. The conglomerate said the initiative could catalyse an additional $150 billion in related sectors, including server manufacturing and sovereign cloud platforms.
Together, Adani estimates the move could help create a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the next decade. Microsoft said it is on track to invest $50 billion by 2030 to expand AI infrastructure and access across countries in the “Global South,” with India as a key focus market. The company had previously unveiled $17.5 billion in AI investments in India last year, underscoring its long-term bet on the country’s digital economy.
Indian data centre firm Yotta Data Services announced a more than $2 billion investment to build one of Asia’s largest AI computing hubs, powered by Nvidia’s latest Blackwell Ultra chips.
Tata Consultancy Services signed OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, as the first customer for its data centre unit under the global AI infrastructure initiative Stargate, marking a significant partnership between Indian IT services and advanced AI model providers.
Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro unveiled a proposed venture with Nvidia to build AI-ready data centre infrastructure and advanced computing platforms designed to support large-scale AI workloads.
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