Overview
- The companies announced the agreement on June 10, with Meta signing a lease for an initial 168 megawatts of capacity at a Reliance-built AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
- Meta said it will pay the facility’s energy and desalinated water costs and disclosed contracts for nearly 1 GW of new clean power in India, including 837 MW from CleanMax and 88 MW from Fourth Partner Energy.
- Reporting describes the arrangement sitting inside a joint‑venture focused on enterprise AI and distribution of Meta’s Llama models, with some outlets saying Reliance would hold roughly 70 percent of the venture; those ownership details are reported but not confirmed by Meta.
- The Jamnagar site will use desalinated seawater for cooling and link to Meta’s wider network projects such as the Project Waterworth subsea cable to improve regional performance and latency.
- The move builds on Meta’s 2020 Jio Platforms investment and Reliance’s multi‑billion plans to scale AI data centers, and it could speed local AI adoption, help meet India’s data‑localization expectations, and shape where enterprise AI workloads run in the region.