Ambani Vows $110 Billion to Build AI Infrastructure in India
Over the next seven years, Reliance aims to anchor India’s AI ambitions in domestic compute and renewable-powered infrastructure.
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Reliance Industries Ltd Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday said the conglomerate will invest Rs10 trillion (about $110 billion) over the next seven years to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, marking one of the largest private capital commitments yet tied to India’s AI ambitions.
Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Ambani said the investment would focus on compute capacity, data centers, renewable power integration and deployment through the group’s digital arm, Jio Platforms.
The commitment comes as companies globally race to secure computing power, with supply of advanced chips and large-scale data center capacity concentrated in the US and parts of East Asia.
“The biggest constraint in AI today is not talent or imagination. It is scarcity and high cost of compute,” Ambani said. “India cannot afford to rent intelligence.”
Data Centers and Energy Integration
Reliance has begun constructing AI-ready data centers in Jamnagar, with 120 megawatts of capacity expected to come online in the second half of 2026.
Ambani said the site has a pathway to multi-gigawatt scale, positioning it among the larger compute projects announced in India.
The company also plans to power the facilities with renewable energy from projects in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh, integrating up to 10 gigawatts of green power to support data centre operations.
Further, Ambani outlined plans for a nationwide edge computing layer integrated with Jio’s telecom network, intended to reduce latency and extend AI-based services beyond major urban centres.
Expanding Beyond Telecom
The announcement signals a deeper push into infrastructure after Reliance’s earlier expansion in telecom reshaped India’s data market. Jio, which has more than 500 million subscribers, helped drive down mobile data prices and expand internet access nationwide.
“Jio connected India to the internet era. Jio will now connect India to the intelligence era,” Ambani said.
He said the company is developing applications across education, healthcare and agriculture, and emphasized multilingual capabilities as central to adoption. Ambani also addressed concerns about employment, stating that AI would generate new high-skill roles rather than eliminate jobs.
Ambani framed AI as a structural technological shift rather than an incremental upgrade.
“For the first time, humans are creating human-like systems that can learn, speak, analyze, move, and produce autonomously,” he said. “AI is the mantra that powers every yantra or every machine and system to work faster, better, and smarter.”
Also drawing on Indian mythology, Ambani said, “I see AI as a modern-day Akshaya Patra, the legendary vessel in Mahabharata that provided endless nourishment to all.” He said the technology offers “limitless augmentation in knowledge, efficiency, and productivity” and argued that its economic impact is still in its early stages.
