Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build

Giant Indian industrial conglomerate Adani has said it will spend up to $100 billion on AI datacenters to equip the nation with sovereign infrastructure, but will do so at slower pace than Big Tech tech companies plan to bring their own bit barns to Bharat.

The organization yesterday announced its plan to spend the cash on 5 GW worth of “renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready datacenters” and gave itself the deadline of the year 2035 to get it done.

Labor is cheap in India, so $100 billion can go a long way. But $100 billion over nine years is a modest and slow plan compared to the $635 billion Amazon, Google, Meta, say they’ll spend on AI infrastructure in 2026 alone. AWS, Google and Microsoft have also promised to spend $67 billion on AI infrastructure in India over the next few years.

Despite not yet having secured land for the facilities ...