New Delhi: Meta Platforms has agreed to lease capacity at a new Reliance Industries data centre in Jamnagar in Gujarat, its first AI-enabled data centre in India. Reliance will develop and operate the 168 MW site over two years, with the capacity to expand. Meta won’t own the infrastructure.
The timing reflects how central India has become to Meta’s business. The company had 3.56 billion daily active users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger in the first quarter of 2026, with India accounting for the largest share of Facebook users and ranking as its top market for Meta AI usage. Running that scale of operations from infrastructure based elsewhere has been a persistent gap.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an official statement released Wednesday, said the Jamnagar facility would help the company scale its AI infrastructure globally while deepening its investment in India. “We’re proud to be working with Reliance to build our first AI-enabled data centre in India,” he said.The facility will support Meta’s AI compute needs and its longer-term ambitions around what the company calls “personal superintelligence”. Reliance will lead construction under a built-to-suit model, while Meta will lease and use the capacity. The site will run on renewable energy and be cooled with desalinated seawater, with Meta covering power and water costs. The company has separately contracted nearly 1 GW of additional clean energy in India through agreements with CleanMax and Fourth Partner Energy.
