Kamal Ghorui
BENGALURU: Ride-hailing platform Uber is setting up its first data centre in India in partnership with the Adani Group, its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday. This marks a significant expansion of the company’s infrastructure footprint in one of its fastest growing markets.“As India fast emerges as a leading innovation hub for Uber, we are setting up our first data centre in the country with the Adani Group to test and deploy our tech,” Khosrowshahi said in a post on X after meeting Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad.The CEO said the investment would help the company “build at scale, from India, for the world” and added that the facility would be ready later this year.The announcement comes as global technology companies increasingly deepen their India infrastructure presence amid rising demand for cloud, AI and data processing capacity. It also adds to the Adani Group’s growing ambitions in digital infrastructure, including data centres and connectivity. Uber already operates large technology and engineering teams in India, with Bengaluru serving as one of its biggest global tech hubs outside the US.At the India AI Impact Summit in Feb, the Adani Group had announced plans to invest $100 billion towards renewable-energy-powered, AI-ready data centres by 2035. The group had then said it was building a five-gigawatt data centre platform through Adani Connex and highlighted partnerships with Google for a gigawatt scale AI data centre campus in Visakhapatnam.India’s data centre market has already drawn a wide set of operators, including NTT Global Data Centers, STT GDC India, CtrlS, Sify Technologies, Nxtra by Airtel, Yotta and Equinix.Reliance Industries backed Digital Connexion, a joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, is also building capacity in the country.
