OpenAI Weighs Indian Partners for Stargate: Report
OpenAI weighs Reliance Jio alongside Sify, Yotta, E2E, and CtrlS for Stargate India push
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ChatGPT-developer OpenAI is in talks to bring its $500-billion global supercomputing project, Stargate, to India, with Sam Altman’s company weighing a partnership with Reliance Jio while also scouting other data center providers including Sify, Yotta, E2E Networks and CtrlS Datacenters, The Economic Times reported, citing people in the know.
The conversations reportedly center on building a large-scale infrastructure base to support OpenAI’s expansion into one of its fastest-growing markets.
India has already emerged as OpenAI’s second-largest user base after the US, and the company is looking at ways to scale services locally.
OpenAI has been evaluating project specifications for Indian data centers, with budgets that could run into hundreds of millions of dollars, the report said.
The initiative is aimed at meeting rising demand from both enterprises and individual users in the country.
OpenAI has reportedly been in talks with Reliance for more than six months, with the latter planning to build the world’s largest data center at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
A spokesperson for CtrlS Datacenters declined to comment on the talks, while spokespeople for Sify, Yotta, and E2E Networks did not respond to queries.
Talks with Reliance involve possible tie-ups on AI deployment across sectors, though Reliance has not finalized any commitments.
In parallel, OpenAI has approached independent providers like Sify to assess capacity and redundancy needs.
India accounts for more than 6% of global ChatGPT traffic, surpassing countries such as Singapore and South Korea.
For OpenAI, establishing a strong Indian presence is seen as critical for long-term growth. The company’s next steps are expected to hinge on finalizing partnerships and regulatory clearances in the coming months.
What’s Stargate?
Stargate is OpenAI’s dedicated AI-compute buildout, a multi-gigawatt network of data-center capacity to train and serve its next generation of models.
In January, the company and partners set up the Stargate Project to invest $500 billion over four years in US AI infrastructure, starting with $100 billion, with initial equity from SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX and technology partners such as Microsoft, Arm, Nvidia and Oracle.
In July, OpenAI said a further 4.5GW with Oracle would take capacity under development to more than 5GW and more than two million chips, anchored by the Stargate I site in Abilene, Texas. Microsoft remains a cloud partner through Stargate.
