Meta to lease 168 MW AI data center in Jamnagar

Meta has reached an agreement with Reliance Industries to lease a 168 megawatt AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Announced June 10, 2026, Reliance will build the facility as part of a larger data center campus. Meta will cover the full cost of the energy and desalinated seawater required to operate the site.

The project is Meta’s first AI-enabled data center in India and includes options to expand capacity. The agreement continues a commercial relationship that began when Meta invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms in 2020.

To supply power, Meta contracted nearly one gigawatt of new clean energy in India. CleanMax is to provide 837 megawatts from solar and wind projects in Rajasthan and Karnataka. Fourth Partner Energy will add 88 megawatts from projects in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. The announcement noted the Jamnagar facility will run on renewable energy from day one.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and chief executive, wrote in the company announcement, ‘We’re proud to be working with Reliance to build our first AI-enabled data center in India. This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us scale our AI infrastructure globally while deepening our long-term investment in India’s economy.’

Data centers have attracted scrutiny over the electricity and water they use. Critics have warned that rising power demand could push grid upgrade costs onto households. Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on social media, ‘These companies need to pay their costs.’ Research published in March 2026 by the Institute for Energy Research found no statistically significant link between the number of data centers in a state and that state’s current electricity prices; two other recent reports reached comparable conclusions.

Some governments are requiring developers to pay for local grid upgrades. In the U.S., Wyoming’s governor signed an executive order directing data center developers to cover the grid upgrade costs their projects create. Whether similar rules are adopted in India may affect the pace and location of new AI facilities.

Reliance is constructing the larger Jamnagar campus to support high-capacity computing. Meta described Jamnagar as offering the power capacity needed to run advanced AI systems and to support the company’s global scaling of AI infrastructure.