Construction major Larsen & Toubro Ltd. on Wednesday announced a tie-up with Nvidia Corp. to build the country's largest gigawatt-scale AI factory under the India AI Mission. The companies will deploy AI-ready datacenter infrastructure, advanced computing platforms, and ecosystem enablement required to support large-scale AI workloads across priority sectors, a statement said.
"This partnership is aimed at India's enterprises, policymakers, industry leaders, global off takers, and analysts seeking production-grade AI capacity anchored in India's digital and industrial transformation," the statement added.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the partnership with L&T will lay the foundation for "world-class AI infrastructure that will power India's growth and help realise the full vision of India AI".
The project will integrate L&T's engineering, infrastructure development, and execution with the US chipmaker's AI infrastructure including GPUs, CPUs, networking, Nvidia-accelerated storage platforms from leading providers, the Nvidia AI Enterprise software stack, and reference architectures to enable rapid, secure AI adoption.
The venture will scale Nvidia GPU cluster deployment in its Chennai DC up to 30 MW capacity in its 300 acres Gigawatt scalable campus and at the new 40 MW Datacenter in Mumbai currently under execution, L&T said.
The AI factory model will be able to deliver advanced AI services to global off takers, hyperscalers and Indian companies, including manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, financial services, healthcare, and public services, thereby moving from experimentation to production-scale deployment. It is designed to provide standardised, enterprise-grade AI capabilities, enabling predictable performance, security, and time-to value for industrial and services use cases, the statement said.
L&T has 32 megawatts of capacity of data center, out of which 14 megawatts is up and running, another 18 megawatts will get commissioned by the end of the current fiscal, a company executive told analysts in a recent earnings call. The total capex investment in the data center is roughly in the range of Rs 1,000 crore.
Shares of L&T traded nearly 1% higher after the news, compared to a 0.1% advance in the benchmark Nifty 50.
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