Adani pledges to invest $10 bn more for data centres in India

GAUTAM ADANI PLANS to invest an additional $10 billion to build data centres in India, people familiar with the matter said, as the billionaire looks to ride the boom in demand for artificial intelligence and business process-led services.

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The port-to-power Adani Group has identified Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu as possible locations for setting up two data centres of about 1 gigawatt (GW) capacity each, the people said, requesting not to be named as the information is private. The vision is to scale up the data centre portfolio to 10 GW over time, they added.

Adani Group is eyeing business from foreign governments, with the focus on government-to-government contracts, the people said, adding the land acquisition is underway.