A Reliance Industries–backed joint venture is set to pour $11 billion into building 1 GW of AI data capacity in Andhra Pradesh, marking one of India’s largest commitments to the fast-growing AI infrastructure space.

The venture, Digital Connexion—formed with Brookfield Corporation and Digital Realty—will develop an AI-native data centre campus across 400 acres in Visakhapatnam, further cementing the city’s rise as a major global AI hub amid surging demand for compute power, according to a report by The Economic Times.

In October, Google disclosed it will build AI data centre capacity in Visakhapatnam over five years, set to be the tech major’s largest-ever AI hub outside of the U.S.

The recent boom in AI, which requires vast amounts of computing data, has fuelled a corporate rush to pour money into the technology globally and has led to an unprecedented growth in data centres across the world.

India’s data centre capacity is expected to more than triple to 4.5 gigawatt by 2030 from current levels, according to real estate consultant Colliers.

Last week, Indian IT firm TCS also unveiled a partnership with private equity firm TPG to invest $2 billion in equity to form a joint venture aimed at developing AI data centres.