Why it matters
The strategic read
Makes India a named Meta AI infrastructure region rather than just a user-growth market. Reliance is turning its Jamnagar energy and industrial base into built-to-suit AI data-center capacity for Meta, while Meta is pairing the lease with country-level renewable procurement and subsea connectivity through Project Waterworth. The receipt ties AI data-center siting, Indian sovereign compute ambition, desalinated-water cooling, renewable matching and hyperscaler-localization strategy into one primary-sourced package.
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What was disclosed
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Meta announced on June 9, 2026 that it entered an agreement with Reliance Industries to lease Meta's first AI-enabled data center in India.
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The facility is located in Jamnagar, Gujarat and is intended to support Meta products and AI capabilities closer to one of its largest user communities.
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Reliance will build the data center with 168 MW of capacity, which Meta will lease, with options to scale.
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Meta said the first phase will deliver 168 MW of capacity and that Reliance is developing one of the largest data-center campuses in the world in Jamnagar.
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The Jamnagar data center will be powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater.
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Meta said it will cover the full cost of energy and water supporting the facility.
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Meta tied the site to its broader network investments, including Project Waterworth, its planned long-haul subsea cable system.
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Meta also announced nearly 1 GW of new clean and renewable energy agreements in India, including 837 MW of new CleanMax solar and wind projects in Rajasthan and Karnataka.
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Meta also named Fourth Partner Energy agreements for new solar and wind projects across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
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Meta framed the India lease as an extension of its long-running Reliance relationship after its 2020 Jio Platforms investment and later enterprise-AI collaboration using Meta open-source models.
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What is known—and what is not
Primary Meta announcement and Meta Data Centers post. Public details disclose the Reliance counterparty, Jamnagar location, 168 MW first-phase capacity, Meta lease structure, option to scale, renewable-energy and desalinated-seawater cooling intent, Meta responsibility for energy and water cost, and the CleanMax / Fourth Partner clean-energy counterparties. Public materials do not disclose lease term, rent, service-level agreement, delivery milestones beyond high-level phase language, full campus capacity, Reliance capex, power-price mechanics, renewable PPA tenor, interconnection details, equipment vendors, EPC contractors, GPU mix, customer-workload allocation or final expansion triggers.