India's Adani seeks up to $5 billion investment in Google data center to join AI boom

Reuters

Fri, November 28, 2025 astatine 11:51 AM CST 1 min read

(Reuters) -India's Adani Group plans to put up to $5 cardinal successful Alphabet-owned ​Google's India AI information centre project, an enforcement ‌said connected Friday, arsenic it seeks to currency successful connected booming request ‌for information capableness successful the world's astir populous nation.

In October, Google said it would put $15 cardinal implicit 5 years to acceptable up an artificial quality information centre successful the confederate authorities ⁠of Andhra Pradesh, its ‌biggest concern successful India.

AI requires tremendous computing power, pushing request for specialised information centres that alteration ‍thousands of chips to beryllium linked successful clusters.

Adani Group CFO Jugeshinder Singh said the Google task could mean an concern of up to $5 cardinal ​for Adani Connex - a associated task betwixt Adani ‌Enterprises and backstage information centre relation EdgeConneX.

"It's not conscionable Google, determination are a batch of parties that would similar to enactment with us, particularly erstwhile the information centre capableness goes to gigawatt and higher," Singh told reporters connected ⁠Friday.

Google has committed to spending astir $85 ​billion this twelvemonth to grow information ​centre capableness arsenic tech companies put heavy successful infrastructure to conscionable the booming request for AI services.

Indian billionaires ‍Gautam Adani and ⁠Mukesh Ambani person besides unveiled investments successful gathering information centre capacity.

The information centre field successful the larboard metropolis of Visakhapatnam ⁠will person an archetypal powerfulness capableness of 1 gigawatt.

($1 = 89.3660 ‌Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi and Dhwani ‌Pandya; Editing by Kevin Liffey)