Indian billionaire and business icon Group Mukesh Ambani plans to build the largest data center in the world in a bid to tap into growing global demand for artificial intelligence services. The conglomerate is reportedly buying semiconductor powerhouse Nvidia Corp and plans to set up a new data center in Gujarat’s Jamnagar. The data center is expected to have a total capacity of three gigawatts, according to those involved in the project, The Bloomberg News reported. This GW capacity would make the data center much larger than any other in the world. With the data center, Ambani joins a growing cohort of tech companies, including Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon, pouring billions of dollars into the global AI services landscape. A Reliance Group spokesman declined to comment, but Bloomberg News cited a recent speech by Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd CEO Akash Ambani in which he mentioned building a data center, expected within two years. “We want to complete it in true Jamnagar style in record time – as we have always done in Jamnagar – in 24 months,” said Akash. Reliance Group aims to power its Jamnagar data center with renewable energy as it builds a gigantic green energy complex spread over 5,000 acres with a factory for photovoltaic panels, fuel cell systems, green hydrogen, energy storage and wind turbines. The largest data centers in the world are currently less than one new GW center, which is Ambani several times larger than the centers available on the market. The largest data centers by capacity are located in the US and are owned by Tech Tycoons. According to DC Byte, Microsoft has a nearly 600 megawatt data facility in Virginia and another 112 MW center under construction. The Jamnagar facility would substantially increase data center capacity in India, which is now estimated at less than one GW. Global demand for data center capacity could triple to an annual level of 219 GW by 2030, according to McKinsey & Co.
