Adani Enterprises and US manufacturer Jabil plan to make AI racks, servers, cooling systems and other data-centre hardware in India for domestic and export markets.
Adani Enterprises and US electronics manufacturer Jabil have agreed to form a 50:50 joint venture to build artificial intelligence and data centre hardware in India, deepening a partnership first signalled in June. The proposed alliance is aimed at manufacturing the physical systems behind AI computing, rather than software, as demand for domestic infrastructure accelerates. According to company statements, the venture would target both Indian customers and export markets.
The planned manufacturing base would produce AI racks, servers, storage systems and networking equipment, alongside power distribution units, liquid-cooling systems and transformers used in high-performance computing environments. The companies said the business would also offer installation and commissioning services, giving it a broader role across the deployment cycle. They expect the operation to scale to multi-gigawatt rack manufacturing capacity, a level intended to serve hyperscalers, co-location operators, cloud providers and enterprise clients.
Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group, said the AI boom would require more than software advances and would depend on energy, computing, infrastructure and manufacturing. He described the tie-up as part of a broader effort to move the group further up the AI value chain, from powering and hosting infrastructure to engineering and making the systems that support next-generation computing. Mike Dastoor, Jabil’s chief executive, said India was becoming more important for AI infrastructure demand and argued that combining Jabil’s manufacturing experience with Adani’s energy and infrastructure assets could widen the reach of the companies’ rack-level solutions.
The timing reflects a wider build-out in India’s digital infrastructure market. Industry forecasts cited by the companies suggest domestic data centre capacity could reach 5GW to 8GW by 2030, driven by AI adoption, cloud growth and data-localisation requirements. The firms also pointed to a global AI infrastructure opportunity worth more than $3 trillion over the next seven years. The proposed venture would fit alongside Adani’s pledge to invest $100 billion in 5GW of green-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035, while Jabil has been expanding its data-centre capabilities through acquisitions including Hanley Energy Group and Mikros Technologies. The agreement remains subject to definitive documentation, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.
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