Reliance Industries and Meta have partnered to construct a 168-megawatt AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat, as part of Meta’s global AI infrastructure expansion, according to medianama.com. The facility will be powered by renewable energy and use desalinated seawater for cooling. Meta will cover the full cost of energy and water supporting the data center, which is smaller than Google-Adani’s 1-gigawatt AI data center in Andhra Pradesh.
The agreement entails Reliance building the data center, which Meta will lease with options to scale capacity. Meta’s Project Waterworth, a subsea cable system spanning over 50,000 kilometers across five continents, will connect the data center to global digital traffic networks. Anshuman Thakur, Senior Vice President at Reliance Jio, clarified that Reliance Intelligence currently has no plans to develop its own large language models.
This partnership highlights the growing focus on AI infrastructure in India, with major global tech players investing in data centers to support AI workloads. The 168 MW capacity, while significant, is about six times smaller than the Google-Adani project, reflecting varied scales of investment in the sector. Meta’s commitment to renewable energy and desalinated seawater for cooling aligns with sustainability trends in data center operations.
Meta’s Project Waterworth subsea cable system, which connects the data center to multiple continents, uses 24 fiber cables deployed at depths up to 7,000 meters. The data center’s construction and operational details, including lease terms, remain undisclosed. The announcement was made in June 2026, marking a notable development in India’s AI infrastructure landscape.