How AI visualizes tomorrow's large-scale data centres. — Photography Generated by OpenAI's DALL·E/ETX Majelan
India is set to soon get an enormous data center. This high-performance facility will meet the growing needs of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
Indian industrial giant Reliance Industries, headed by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, is embarking on an ambitious project to open the world's largest data centre. It will be based in Jamnagar, in the state of Gujarat. With an announced capacity of 3 gigawatts, it will outperform all hyperscale data centres built to date, both in the USA and China. A gigawatt (GW) is one billion watts. This corresponds to the power needed to supply a large city of around one million inhabitants. This project would therefore offer enough power to supply nearly three million people.
According to Bloomberg, Reliance has teamed up with Nvidia, the world leader in AI-optimized processors, to carry out this colossal project. Nvidia's chips will enable the centre to process immense quantities of data and run particularly complex algorithms. Aware of environmental issues, Mukesh Ambani has promised that the building will be mainly powered by renewable energies. An adjacent energy complex, producing solar, wind and green hydrogen power, will provide all the electricity needed to run the centre 24 hours a day.
All this energy will be used to meet the growing demand for AI solutions, both in India and abroad. Today's artificial intelligence models are extremely "compute resource hungry," hence the need to build new infrastructures that are more powerful than ever. This initiative also aims to strengthen India's place on the global AI scene.
Data centres have become the essential element for ensuring competitiveness in the realm of AI. It's no coincidence that the construction of several huge data centres is also on the agenda of the Trump administration's Stargate project in the USA. – AFP Relaxnews
