New Delhi: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is planning to build a 1.5-gigawatt data centre cluster and a captive solar battery storage system in Visakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh, with an investment of Rs 1.6 lakh crore, an Economic Times report said on Tuesday.
If RIL’s proposed data centre becomes a reality, the facility would become India’s largest data centre cluster. At present, Google’s upcoming 1-GW project in Visakhapatnam, with an estimated investment of $15 billion is the largest data centre in the country.
RIL’s Mega 1.5 GW AI Data Centre
The ET report claimed that Andhra Pradesh’s Investment Promotion Committee gave the green signal for RIL’s mega investment on Saturday. Reliance Industries is reportedly planning to set up a giga-scale artificial intelligence data centre cluster in three phases, for which the conglomerate has sought 935 acres of land for the cluster, including 300 acres for the first phase and 635 acres for the second phase. RIL further wants 1 acre for a cable landing station and 80 acres for a desalination plant.
Reliance Industries has not released any statement in regards to the ‘1.5-gigawatt data centre cluster’ project. It is being reported that in the first phase, RIL would establish a 500-MW data centre at Polipalli village and operations starting from October 2028.
The reported project’s second phase is expected to add 1 GW of capacity at Bhogapuram East and West by 2030.
India’s Growing Data Center Hub
India is fast developing as a data centre hub. According to the Ministry of Electronics & IT, the data centre capacity in the country has increased from about 375 MW in 2020 to around 1500 MW by 2025.
“Data centres, especially AI-focused facilities, form the backbone of modern digital infrastructure. Investments of nearly USD 70 billion are already underway in India’s data centre sector, with an additional USD 90 billion in announced projects, highlighting the scale of expansion,” a government release had stated.
India’s data centre capacity is projected to reach about 8 GW by 2030 from about 1.4GW as of Q2 of 2025.
