The Adani Group of India announced on Tuesday its plan to invest $100 billion by 2035 in developing hyperscale AI-ready data centres powered by renewable energy.

This move supports New Delhi’s efforts to position the country as a major global hub for artificial intelligence.

The announcement aligns with India’s ongoing five-day global AI summit, which addresses topics such as job disruption caused by AI and child safety online.

The summit brings together 20 national leaders and 45 ministerial-level delegations, with the main discussions set for Thursday.

Tech leaders attending include Sam Altman of OpenAI and Sundar Pichai of Google.

According to the Adani Group’s statement, the $100 billion investment is expected to catalyse an additional $150 billion in spending across server manufacturing, advanced electrical infrastructure, sovereign cloud platforms, and supporting industries.

“Together, this is projected to create a $250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India over the decade,” the statement noted.

The conglomerate, which spans ports to power, described its vision as “anchored” by key partnerships with Google — which aims to establish a massive data centre campus in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam — and Microsoft.

“The Adani Group is also in discussion with other major players seeking to establish large scale campuses across India thereby further cementing its position as India’s premier AI infrastructure partner,” the statement added.

India rose to third place last year in Stanford University’s annual global ranking of AI competitiveness, surpassing South Korea and Japan.

However, experts note that despite ambitious infrastructure plans and innovation goals, the country still faces significant challenges before it can match the United States and China in AI dominance.