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Meta to Open 168MW AI Data Centre in Jamnagar, India

June 18, 2026 at 21:39 EDT

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Meta will open its first AI-enabled data centre in India through a leasing arrangement in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The 168-megawatt facility, developed in partnership with Reliance Industries, will operate as part of a globally interconnected fleet of data centres.

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168MW

Jamnagar data center scale, built with Reliance

$115-135B

Meta's planned annual AI compute spend

10s GW

Target AI data center capacity under Meta Compute

Capacity ambition, drawn to scale

From a single 168MW site toward superclusters above 1GW (≈6× larger) — and, over time, hundreds of GW.

168MW

Jamnagar site

1GW+

Supercluster

Three pillars in India

Jamnagar Data Center

First at 168MW scale with Reliance — a flexible "factory of today" for training, inference and services. Under construction.

Bengaluru Silicon Hub

Proprietary chip development. Revenue from in-house silicon already a meaningful portion.

Project Waterworth

One of the world's longest, most advanced subsea cables — with India on a major route.

What's still unproven

Projects are early and under construction — execution, not promises, will decide India's hub status.

Power & cooling — rising fast as AI workloads scale.

"Pipe cleaning" — learning from a first zero-to-one build.

Rival pressure — Google and other hyperscalers investing too.

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