Meta Platforms will lease capacity in a 168-megawatt Reliance-built data center in Jamnagar, India, under an expanded AI infrastructure agreement. This deal extends their Jio Platforms collaboration and underscores Meta’s heavy investment in global compute capacity to power Llama-based AI tools.
Meta and Reliance Industries have agreed that Reliance will build a 168-megawatt data center in Jamnagar, India, and Meta will lease a significant portion of its capacity. Financial terms and a launch date for the facility remain undisclosed.
The new data center capacity will bolster Meta’s ability to support its growing suite of AI tools and services, including large-scale Llama model deployments. Additional compute power is critical as Meta scales up machine-learning workloads across its platforms.
This expanded agreement builds on Meta’s existing investment in Reliance’s Jio Platforms and previous joint work on AI tools for businesses. The strengthened partnership leverages Reliance’s land, power and infrastructure advantages in Jamnagar.
The deal highlights Meta’s continued high-volume capital spending on global infrastructure to drive AI ambitions. India’s growing technology market is becoming a strategic focus for Meta’s long-term compute and service expansion.
