Ride-hailing
major Uber is setting up its first data centre in India in partnership with the
Adani Group as the country rapidly emerges as a major innovation hub for the
company, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday.
Sharing
details about the development after meeting Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani
here, the Uber CEO said India is rapidly becoming a leading innovation hub for
the global mobility platform.
“Great
to meet Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad this morning and build on our existing
partnership with the Adani group,” he said in a post on social media platform
X.
“As
India fast emerges as a leading innovation hub for Uber, we are setting up our
first data centre in the country with the Adani Group to test and deploy our
tech,” he added.
The
proposed data centre is expected to support Uber’s growing technology and
innovation operations in India, which has increasingly become an important market
for the company not only in mobility services but also in engineering and
product development.“Ready later this year, this investment will help us build
at scale - from India, for the world,” the CEO stated.
The
latest partnership announcement comes at a time when the Adani Group is rapidly
expanding its digital infrastructure footprint in India.
Last
month, it was announced that AdaniConneX, the Adani Group’s data centre joint
venture with EdgeConneX, is leading the development of a 1 GW AI-ready data
centre platform in Visakhapatnam.
According
to an official statement issued on April 28, the ambitious project is backed by
an investment of nearly $10 billion from the Adani Group and reflects the
conglomerate’s long-term commitment to building large-scale digital
infrastructure to support India’s next phase of technological and economic
growth.
As
the lead infrastructure partner, AdaniConneX is developing scalable, AI-ready
data centre infrastructure, supported by a robust and integrated energy ecosystem.