Adani Group Explores Nuclear Power to Fuel Its Expanding AI Data Center Ambitions
December 22, 2025
India's Adani Group, a sprawling industrial conglomerate, is exploring the construction of nuclear power plants to secure a massive, reliable, and low-carbon energy supply for its rapidly expanding artificial intelligence data center operations. This potential move underscores the intensifying global race to secure power for energy-intensive AI infrastructure, pushing major players beyond traditional renewable sources like solar and wind.
According to a report by Nikkei Asia, the company is actively studying the feasibility of building and owning nuclear facilities, though it would outsource the reactor technology itself. This development is directly tied to surging demand for data center capacity. Jeet Adani, director of Adani Digital Labs, told Nikkei Asia that "Data centers is very, very big. What we had assumed we would do in 2030, we have already crossed, and the amount of demand that's coming in keeps rising."
The group's ambitions are vast. It aims to develop AI data centers with a total capacity exceeding one gigawatt across multiple Indian cities, including Vizag, Navi Mumbai, Noida, and Hyderabad. This expansion is backed by significant capital commitments, including a recently announced investment of up to $5 billion for a Google data center campus in Visakhapatnam. To power these facilities, Adani also plans to leverage its formidable renewable energy arm, Adani Green Energy, which boasts an operational capacity of more than 16.5GW, making it India's largest renewable provider. "We have the ability to give as much renewable electricity as any of the hyperscalers would want," Adani stated.
The scale of India's data center build-out highlights the critical need for such power solutions. Industry data from DC Byte indicates that as of April 2025, the country's live data center capacity stands at 1.2GW, dwarfed by a total pipeline of 7.7GW under construction or in planning. Adani expressed strong optimism about India's potential, suggesting the country could attract investments for 10GW of data center capacity within five years, which he said could drive demand for "50GW of renewable electricity coming just from the data centers."
If pursued, Adani's nuclear exploration would mark a significant strategic shift in the data center industry's approach to power sourcing, blending established renewable portfolios with advanced baseload power to meet the relentless demands of AI compute. It positions the conglomerate not just as a data center developer, but as a vertically integrated power provider for the digital economy.
Source: datacenterdynamics
Adani Group Explores Nuclear Power to Fuel Its Expanding AI Data Center Ambitions
