OpenAI bets big in India with a 100MW AI infrastructure to grow to 1GW. It is within this infrastructure reality that OpenAI has partnered with Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in India, with plans to scale that footprint to as much as 1 gigawatt over time. The initial capacity will be delivered through Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data center business, where OpenAI will become the anchor customer.
The agreement sits under OpenAI’s broader Stargate initiative, a global effort to build dedicated AI infrastructure and accelerate enterprise adoption. In practical terms, the India partnership gives OpenAI the ability to run advanced AI models locally rather than serving Indian users entirely from overseas facilities.
For India, this is not just a technology story. It is an infrastructure and capital allocation decision.
One hundred megawatts of AI-ready capacity represents a significant energy commitment. Modern AI systems rely on dense clusters of GPUs that require continuous power and sophisticated cooling systems. Unlike traditional enterprise servers, these clusters must handle large-scale model training and high-volume inference simultaneously. Securing that level of capacity signals long-term demand expectations rather than short-term experimentation.
Scaling to 1 gigawatt would move the facility into the ranks of the world’s largest AI-focused data center deployments. That scale carries implications for land
In the industrial corridors outside Mumbai and Chennai, data centers are beginning to sit alongside ports, highways and manufacturing parks as part of India’s expanding digital backbone. Steel and concrete shells that once hosted simple cloud workloads are now being redesigned for something heavier: clusters of graphics processors that draw as much power as small towns. The economics of artificial intelligence are no longer abstract. They are measured in megawatts.
It is within this infrastructure reality that OpenAI has partnered with Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in India, with plans to scale that footprint to as much as 1 gigawatt over time. The initial capacity will be delivered through Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data center business, where OpenAI will become the anchor customer.
The agreement sits under OpenAI’s broader Stargate initiative, a global effort to build dedicated AI infrastructure and accelerate enterprise adoption. In practical terms, the India partnership gives OpenAI the ability to run advanced AI models locally rather than serving Indian users entirely from overseas facilities.
For India, this is not just a technology story. It is an infrastructure and capital allocation decision.
One hundred megawatts of AI-ready capacity represents a significant energy commitment. Modern AI systems rely on dense clusters of GPUs that require continuous power and sophisticated cooling systems. Unlike traditional enterprise servers, these clusters must handle large-scale model training and high-volume inference simultaneously. Securing that level of capacity signals long-term demand expectations rather than short-term experimentation.
Scaling to 1 gigawatt would move the facility into the ranks of the world’s largest AI-focused data center deployments. That scale carries implications for land
