The Adani Group is preparing to invest as much as $5 billion into Google’s upcoming artificial-intelligence infrastructure hub in southern India, Chief Financial Officer Jugeshinder Singh said Friday, signaling the rapid build-out of the country’s data-center ecosystem as global demand for AI computing intensifies.
Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Singh said the investment structure and timeline are still being finalized. The initiative follows Adani Enterprises Ltd.’s announcement last month of a strategic partnership with Alphabet Inc., executed through its data-center arm AdaniConneX Pvt., to build India’s largest AI data-center campus in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
The move is part of a broader push by global tech firms and major Indian conglomerates to boost capacity for AI computation, cloud storage and high-performance infrastructure. Google itself recently unveiled plans to invest $15 billion in India for what it described as its biggest data-center bet in the country to date.
India is fast becoming a critical battleground in the worldwide AI infrastructure arms race, with governments and corporations collectively pouring trillions into new data-center construction. Earlier this week, Digital Connexion — a joint venture led by Reliance Industries Ltd. — signed an $11 billion agreement to establish data-center facilities in Visakhapatnam. Meanwhile, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. secured $1 billion in funding from TPG Inc. last week to scale its AI-related build-out.
Real-estate consultancy CBRE Group Inc. estimates that total investments in India’s data-center sector will surpass $100 billion by 2027, driven by record power demand, AI-focused cloud expansion, and the rapid digitalization of the economy.
Adani’s participation in Google’s new AI hub, once finalized, would further cement the conglomerate’s position as a major player in India’s technology infrastructure and reinforce the country’s emergence as a global data-center powerhouse.
