Reliance Commits $110 Billion to Build India’s Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries announced a staggering $110 billion investment over seven years to build AI data centres, edge computing networks, and sovereign compute infrastructure making it India’s largest-ever AI commitment.

In one of the most consequential announcements at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Industries and Jio, pledged $110 billion (approximately ₹10 lakh crore) over the next seven years for AI-related infrastructure across India.

Ambani described the investment as essential for India’s technological self-reliance, asserting that the country cannot afford to rent intelligence. He said Reliance aims to dramatically cut the cost of AI services just as Jio once slashed mobile data prices making advanced AI accessible to millions of Indians.

The investment will fund multi-gigawatt-scale data centres, a nationwide edge computing network, and new AI services integrated with Jio. Construction has already begun at a new facility in Jamnagar, Gujarat, with more than 120 megawatts of capacity expected to come online in the second half of 2026.

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The announcement came alongside a $100 billion pledge from the Adani Group to build what it described as the world’s largest integrated data centre platform. Together, Reliance and Adani have committed a combined $210 billion to domestic AI and data infrastructure far surpassing any single developing nation’s prior AI commitments. The pledges were made at a summit that also saw OpenAI partner with Tata Group and Anthropic open its first India office in Bengaluru.