Meta will lease capacity from the facility, expanding the company’s global infrastructure, supporting its core business and AI compute needs while Reliance Industries will provide end-to-end services for the data centre lifecycle. | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic

Meta Inc is set to have its own 168-MW capacity AI-enabled data centre in Jamnagar set up by Reliance Industries in India within two years.

The new data centre, separate from the 1 GW data centre announced by Reliance in 2025, will act as part of Meta’s global infrastructure, supporting its core business and AI compute needs. As the first built-to-suit data centre capacity in India for Meta, the project underlines India’s emergence as a global hub for AI infrastructure.

Meta will lease capacity from the facility, expanding the company’s global infrastructure, supporting its core business and AI compute needs while Reliance Industries will provide end-to-end services for the data centre lifecycle. This includes design, ongoing management of utilities, renewable power supply, network connectivity and fully managed operational services.

“Building India’s first built-to-suit data centre for a global technology leader of Meta’s scale demonstrates India’s readiness to be at the forefront of the global AI revolution. Jamnagar will become a landmark destination for hyperscale AI computing, and we are proud to partner with Meta to make this vision a reality,” said, Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries.

Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Meta, said the facility will help the company scale its AI infrastructure globally while deepening long-term investment in India’s economy.

Capacity capture

A BTS facility indicates intention to host AI models like Llama for its Indian customers and offer the AI infrastructure as a service to India as well as global customers, as per Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Research Director at IDC.

“A 168 MW capacity points to a long term commitment of Meta to host its AI services here in India. Usually for traditional workloads, the rack power densities range from 5 to 20kw per rack. For AI workloads it starts anywhere from 40kw to up to 150 kw. Meta might be starting with a smaller footprint and scale to 168 MW in a few years depending AI demand,” he said.

The tech giant is assembling an energy position in India, by taking up the single-tenant project at roughly a tenth to a seventh of India’s operational data centre base, while separately backing the country’s renewable energy, said Sanchit Vir Gogia, Founder CEO of Greyhound Research.

“India’s data centre vacancy sits in low single digits and roughly two-thirds of operational capacity is controlled by a handful of operators. Into that tightness arrives the anchor-tenant model. The consequence is a two-tier market: premium, pre-committed AI campuses for a few global platforms, and everyone else competing for what remains,” he said.

Meanwhile, the project positions Reliance as a single-window solutions provider for hyperscale AI infrastructure in India. The data centre will be powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater, demonstrating both RIL’s and Meta’s commitment to sustainability.

When asked how this would mediate data centre-related water concerns, Gogia said, “Desalinated seawater and coastal siting avoid competing with cities and farms for drinking water. But desalination is not a magic wand. It trades freshwater stress for energy intensity, intake infrastructure and brine that must be governed, measured and audited.”

Published on June 10, 2026