Overview
- Uber, which announced the partnership Wednesday after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi met Gautam Adani, will build its first India data center to test and deploy technology and expects it to be operational later in 2026.
- The company said Thursday it will open large engineering campuses in Bengaluru and Hyderabad with room for about 9,600 people by the end of 2027, adding to roughly 3,500 employees in India today and ramping hiring in AI and back‑end roles.
- Uber says a domestic facility will help it follow India’s data‑localization rules and cut lag for users by keeping more data and compute inside the country, though investment size and the exact site were not disclosed.
- The tie‑up slots Uber into Adani’s bigger AI infrastructure push, which includes AdaniConneX’s planned Visakhapatnam campus with Google that reports estimate at about $15 billion from 2026 to 2030 and a focus on renewable power.
- Uber shares slipped modestly after the India expansion news, reflecting concern about higher infrastructure spending even as the company positions the center as a core node for future AI‑driven services.