Meta Expands AI Data Centers Globally

The story is mostly stable, but the framing now emphasizes power-system planning and operating status more than separate project announcements. It also drops Temple, Texas from the location list and narrows the emphasis on risks to whether proposed capacity will actually be used.

The biggest change is that Meta's Alberta project and Texas campus are no longer just planned: the Texas site has opened, while the Alberta campus is now tied to a specific $9 billion-plus build and active power coordination. The India side also sharpens into a concrete lease-and-expansion story, with larger capital and capacity targets from RMZ and AdaniConneX.

• Temple, Texas facility has opened as an AI-optimized campus.
• Meta's Alberta project is now a more than $9 billion campus in Sturgeon County.
• Jamnagar facility is described as a lease from Reliance with expansion options.
• RMZ targets 2-3 GW in India through a $35 billion push.
• AdaniConneX targets 5 GW and about $100 billion by 2035.

The story now extends beyond Indian capacity expansion to include an operational Meta AI campus in Texas and much more explicit execution constraints around power, grid coordination, cooling, and local infrastructure. It also broadens the stakeholder set to include utilities and communities, while emphasizing that much of the announced capacity is still unbuilt and uncertain.

• Meta’s Temple, Texas campus is now operational after a redesign.
• Closed-loop liquid cooling and clean-energy matching are part of the Texas site.
• AdaniConneX has joined the India expansion story with longer-term capacity plans.
• Alberta’s project now involves transmission and grid coordination years in advance.
• Developers are committing to roads, water, education, and watershed investments.

The story now places more emphasis on where the expansion is shifting geographically and on the supporting infrastructure required, while also adding clearer evidence of renewable-energy contracting and specific capacity targets. Meta’s Alberta project remains a parallel example, but the India narrative is now broader and more execution-focused.

The story now includes Meta’s separate 1-gigawatt Alberta build and shifts from project announcements to execution constraints, especially power, equipment, permitting, and community acceptance. The India expansion remains the core theme, but the scope is broader and more operationally detailed.

• Meta announced a 1-gigawatt, approximately $9 billion Alberta data center.
• Meta will lease the 168-megawatt Jamnagar facility from Reliance.
• RMZ’s expansion is tied to a $35 billion investment program.
• Project delivery now depends on permitting and local acceptance.
• Community impacts are emphasized, particularly emissions, water use, and noise.

The story is now more concrete on execution: Meta and Reliance’s Jamnagar project has a near-term delivery target, and Amazon’s India spend has been sharply revised upward. A new domestic player, RMZ, also enters the picture with much larger scaling ambitions, reinforcing that the buildout is moving beyond a few hyperscaler-led announcements.

• Meta-Reliance Jamnagar facility targeted for delivery within two years.
• Amazon raised India AI and cloud investment to $48 billion through 2030.
• RMZ plans to scale Indian capacity to 2–3 gigawatts over five years.
• Schneider Electric expects stronger India demand for power and cooling systems.
• Meta’s separate 1-gigawatt Alberta project is newly mentioned.

The story has shifted from a general India data center buildout to a more specific AI-ready infrastructure race led by named hyperscaler commitments and domestic platforms. The new version also puts greater emphasis on utility, water, and renewable-energy requirements as core constraints and differentiators.

• Meta's Jamnagar project is a built-to-suit lease with 168 MW capacity.
• Amazon added $13 billion for AWS capacity in India.
• AdaniConneX is targeting 5 GW of capacity by 2035.
• Market estimates project 6-7 GW by 2030 from about 1.5 GW today.

The story has broadened from a few concrete hyperscale deals into a wider wave of announced India data center investment, led by AWS alongside Meta, Reliance, RMZ, and AdaniConneX. The emphasis has shifted toward execution details and infrastructure readiness—power, cooling, connectivity, and land—rather than just flagship projects.

• Amazon Web Services now appears among the leading operators.
• RMZ Infrastructure is newly identified as a major developer.
• Large capital commitments are now a central feature of the story.
• Infrastructure readiness constraints are more explicitly highlighted.
• Bengaluru joins the recurring buildout locations.

The story has shifted from broad forecasts about India’s data center growth to concrete hyperscale execution, led by Meta and Reliance’s Jamnagar project and supported by renewable power and water planning. It also now includes larger named developers and a clearer sense of where the next buildout is concentrating.

• Meta and Reliance announced a 168 MW AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar.
• The Jamnagar deal is structured as a lease arrangement.
• Meta will cover energy and water costs for the project.
• AdaniConneX has outlined a 5 GW target by 2035.
• Concerns remain about absorption and timing of planned capacity.

The update is mainly a reframing: the story now centers more explicitly on AI-ready demand and the supporting power-grid ecosystem, while dropping the earlier Adani/proxy-trade angle. The core growth thesis for Schneider Electric and India's data center buildout remains intact.

India's data center buildout is accelerating as AI workloads raise demand for reliable power, cooling, and integrated infrastructure. Schneider Electric says its India data center business is growing faster than its broader India operations and could become a much larger share of revenue over the next four to five years. A parallel investment push from Adani highlights how data centers are also becoming a proxy trade for power, renewables, and grid infrastructure in India.