Overview
- Uber said Wednesday it will partner with the Adani Group to build its first data centre in India.
- The facility, a dedicated computing site, is slated to go live later this year to test and deploy Uber’s AI, cloud and mapping technologies for global scale from India.
- The announcement followed Dara Khosrowshahi’s meeting with Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad, with the investment size, location and technical specifications still undisclosed.
- Adani is expanding digital infrastructure through AdaniConneX, including a planned AI data-centre campus with Google in Visakhapatnam that reporting estimates at about $15 billion between 2026 and 2030.
- Global players are boosting India’s compute footprint, with reported plans by OpenAI with TCS and fresh outlays from Amazon and Microsoft, a buildout that could create tech jobs and deepen local supplier networks.