Reliance Jio’s parent company, Reliance Industries Limited, is reportedly planning to build AI-ready data centres in Jamnagar as part of the company’s overall strategy of “democratising” access to AI infrastructure.
According to ETTelecom, Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Thursday that the company will build gigawatt-scale data centres in Jamnagar, in Gujarat province, that will provide affordable access to AI models and services.
Reliance also intends to partner with global tech companies to create AI inference facilities across its locations throughout India, which it says will be scaled up as demand grows.
Ambani told ETTelecom that by going the partnership route, and leveraging Jio’s expertise in infrastructure, networking, operations, software, and data, Reliance will be able to “create the world's lowest AI inferencing cost right here [in India]. This will make AI applications in India more affordable than anywhere else.”
Reliance scored a partnership deal in September 2023 with GPU chipmaker Nvidia, under which the two companies plan to build AI infrastructure using Nvidia’s GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and its cloud-based AI supercomputing service DGX Cloud. Reliance and Nvidia also aim to develop India’s own foundation large language model (LLM), which will be trained on the country’s diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications.
A few months before that, Reliance formed a joint venture with Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure to develop highly connected scalable data centres in India.
In the meantime, Ambani also announced Thursday that Reliance will launch a new AI cloud service starting at the end of October. The “Jio AI-Cloud Welcome” service will offer “affordable” cloud data storage and data-powered AI services, with users getting up to 100 GB of free cloud storage, the report said.
