Meta to lease 168 MW AI data center in Jamnagar

Meta and Reliance Industries announced on June 10, 2026, that Meta will lease a 168 megawatt AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Reliance will build the facility and the agreement includes options to increase capacity as demand grows. Meta said the site will be powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater, and that it will cover the full cost of the energy and water supplied to the site.

The lease extends a commercial partnership that began after Meta’s $5.7 billion investment in Jio Platforms in 2020. Reliance is developing a large data center campus in Jamnagar; Meta said the location provides the energy capacity needed for advanced AI systems. The initial leased capacity is 168 MW, with contractual provisions to scale up in the future.

To support the Jamnagar facility and other operations in India, Meta contracted nearly 1 gigawatt of new clean energy. CleanMax will supply 837 MW of solar and wind projects located in Rajasthan and Karnataka. Fourth Partner Energy will provide 88 MW across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Meta stated the Jamnagar site will use that renewable power and desalinated seawater for cooling, and that Meta will bear the associated costs.

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO, described the Jamnagar facility as “world-class” and said it will help scale the company’s AI infrastructure globally while deepening its long-term investment in India’s economy.

Data centers’ electricity and water use have drawn increased attention from policymakers. Senator Elizabeth Warren has raised concerns about whether the costs of rising power demand are being passed to households and opened an investigation. Entergy CEO Drew Marsh commented that data centers seek to be “good neighbors.” Research published in March 2026 by the Institute for Energy Research reported no statistically significant correlation between the number of data centers in a state and that state’s electricity prices.

Some U.S. states have taken steps to limit the financial impact of data center growth on local grids. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed an executive order requiring data center developers to pay for the grid upgrades their projects require. The Jamnagar lease represents a commercial arrangement between Meta and Reliance that combines on-site development with contracted renewable supply to meet the power and cooling needs of modern AI workloads.