Adani Group Unveils $100 B Renewable-Powered AI Data-Centre Push Through 2035

Private capital marrying electrons and algorithms is not new: Edison’s 1882 Pearl Street Station bundled power generation with electrical appliances, while Japan’s 1982 Fifth Generation Computer Project tied state-backed supercomputers to domestic chip fabs. Adani’s move echoes those quests for vertical control, but at AI-era scale and amid a global pivot toward compute sovereignty and decarbonisation. India is leveraging its huge solar resource, RED tape cuts, and a 1.4-billion-user data trove to leapfrog the West-China duopoly in high-density AI infrastructure. Whether this gambit averts the late-1990s telecom-fiber glut or repeats it will hinge on water use, grid stability and GPU supply. On a century horizon, fusing clean energy with computation could recast India from back-office outsourcer to core platform exporter—yet it also locks scarce land, metals and capital into hyperscale assets whose relevance will be tested by evolving algorithms and climate shocks.