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Meta partners with Reliance to lease its first AI data center in India, a 168-megawatt facility

The facility can expand to accommodate growing compute demands

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🚨News: Meta is building its first AI data center in India, and it's teaming up with Reliance to do it.

the project is a 168-megawatt AI-enabled facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat.

Meta is leasing the capacity while Reliance handles everything from design and construction to power, connectivity and day-to-day operations.

the center will run on renewable energy and use desalinated seawater for cooling.

Meta is covering the full cost of the energy and water it uses.

Reliance says it'll be ready within two years and can expand over time.

It will also plug into Meta's global AI computing network.

On top of that, Meta has contracted nearly 1 gigawatt of new renewable energy in India through CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy.

the deal builds on Meta's $5.7B investment in Jio back in 2020. Value of the new agreement wasn't disclosed.

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Many users praised Meta's AI data center deal with Reliance in India for its historic scale and renewable energy focus.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

@Meer_AIIT India is experiencing a historic data center investment boom, over $200 B in commitments by some news reports.

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Q5™️🛰️⚡🔅@Q5media_26

@Meer_AIIT This isn’t just an AI data center deal, it’s Meta outsourcing the physical backbone of AI to strategic local partners, signaling that future AI power won’t be owned end-to-end by Big Tech alone, but built through infrastructure alliances.

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Andrew Bolis@AndrewBolis

@Meer_AIIT The renewable energy component makes this project stand out.

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\m/-=3Đ∇サ=-\m/@CargoShortLife

@TechCrunch Yes, move your Indians back home and get them out of Silicon Valley

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AI Pulse@AINoobLab

@TechCrunch Meta isn’t just buying data center space. They’re buying the next billion users for their AI models.

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Aditya Bhattad@datbrownnigga

@rohanpaul_ai @Meer_AIIT It is historic. A 168 mw facility is gonna be ancient history by the time this build is complete.

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Volodymyr Pavlenko@mindinpanic

@TechCrunch metas first ai data center in india and they go with reliance? not surprised at all

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Santhil Kherwal@santhil_X

@TechCrunch Interesting to see Meta expanding its hardware footprint in India. Curious about the specific infrastructure choices for these data centers, especially around power and cooling for heavy AI workloads.

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Ademola Oluwatobiloba@ademolaoluwa12

@Meer_AIIT Greetings,

I checked out your website and it looks great. Quick question: have you ever explored Reddit for visibility and audience growth? I found a few communities where people are already discussing topics related to your niche.

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Locale Network 🏡@LocaleNet

@Meer_AIIT AI expansion increasingly depends on partnerships between tech and energy.

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Invincible@InvincibleEdge

@Meer_AIIT 168 megawatts in Jamnagar is genuinely massive

almost like the power infrastructure story is the bigger play here

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拿幸TV⚡@Cyberzks

@TechCrunch Outstanding! Wire services picking this up.

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