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Uber to build its first India data centre with Adani Group
The ride-hailing giant’s chief executive is in India wooing ministers and sealing deals as Adani cements its position as the country’s go-to data infrastructure partner
CALIFORNIA: Uber is planting its first digital flag in India. Chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi, on a five-day visit to the country, announced a partnership with the Adani Group to set up Uber’s first data centre in India, to be used to test and deploy technology. The facility is expected to be operational later this year.
Khosrowshahi shared news of the deal after meeting Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad. “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 said in a post on X, adding that the investment would help the company build at scale, “from India, for the world.”
The announcement is part of a busy ministerial blitz by the Uber chief. A day earlier, Khosrowshahi met finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for what he described as a “rich conversation” about Uber’s strategic investment roadmap for India and the role platforms like Uber could play in the country’s Viksit Bharat 2047 ambitions. He also called on civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu to discuss last-mile connectivity for air passengers. Naidu said he had encouraged the Uber delegation to strengthen sustainable mobility initiatives “in line with our broader vision of making urban transit cleaner and efficient.”
For the Adani Group, the Uber tie-up adds another significant name to a rapidly growing data infrastructure portfolio. In October 2025, Adani Enterprises, through its joint venture AdaniConneX, partnered with Google to develop what is billed as India’s largest AI data centre campus and green energy infrastructure in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Google’s proposed AI hub there is estimated to involve around $15 billion in investment over five years from 2026 to 2030, encompassing gigawatt-scale data centre operations, subsea cable connectivity and clean energy infrastructure. Airtel is among the ecosystem partners on that project.
Uber has grand ambitions for India. Khosrowshahi is betting that a country of 1.4 billion people, with soaring smartphone penetration and an appetite for tech-driven services, can be more than just a large market. It can be a global engine room. With Adani now building the plumbing, the pressure is on Uber to deliver the goods.
