Uber plans its first India data centre with Adani Group

Ride-hailing platform Uber is setting up its first data centre in India in partnership with the Adani Group, chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday, marking 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 center 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 Iranian-origin CEO said that 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 United States. The company has been expanding its India offerings across mobility, logistics and electric mobility while also using the country as a key engineering and product development base.

The announcement places Uber within a widening wave of India data-centre investments, as demand for AI, cloud and high-performance computing capacity rises.

For the Adani Group, the partnership adds to its broader ambitions around AI infrastructure and data centres. At the India AI Impact Summit in February, the conglomerate announced plans to invest $100 billion towards renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035, while also outlining ambitions around server manufacturing, sovereign cloud platforms and domestic AI infrastructure supply chains.

The group had then said it was building a five-gigawatt data centre platform through AdaniConnex and highlighted partnerships with Google for a gigawatt-scale AI data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, alongside projects with other global technology companies.