Indian firm Yotta announces $2 billion AI data centre project using Nvidia Blackwell chips, targeting Asia largest AI hub status.

Indian data centre company Yotta Data Services announced Wednesday that it will build one of Asia's largest AI computing hubs using Nvidia's latest Blackwell Ultra chips. The project will cost more than $2 billion, or over ₹16,000 crore, and is expected to go live by August at Yotta's data centre campus near New Delhi, with additional capacity from its facility in Mumbai.

Nvidia will anchor Asia's first DGX Cloud supercluster within Yotta's infrastructure through a four-year contract valued at about $1 billion. Under this arrangement, Nvidia will deploy about 10,300 GPUs to serve their global APAC customers and run their own models and services. "Nvidia is creating one of Asia's largest DGX Cloud clusters on our supercluster. They will deploy about 10,300 GPUs to serve their global APAC customers and run their own models and services," Yotta co-founder Sunil Gupta said.

Beyond the DGX Cloud deployment, a considerable portion of the remaining GPU capacity will be dedicated to India's national AI Mission, supporting initiatives such as Bhashini, Sarvam, BharatGen and Soket, which are building foundational Indian-language AI models. This expansion comes amid rising demand from startups seeking affordable compute access. "There are more than 500 applications from startups to access affordable compute. Many have not received GPUs yet. There is huge pressure on capacity. This expansion will increase India's compute capacity almost five to six times," Gupta was quoted as saying.

With this deployment, Yotta's total GPU footprint will rise from about 40,000 GPUs today to more than 75,000 GPUs over the next two years. Yotta has already secured funding for the entire $2-billion GPU investment and is now planning to raise $1-$1.2 billion through pre-IPO and IPO funding. The company, co-founded by Hiranandani Group CEO Darshan Hiranandani and 'Data Center Man of India' Sunil Gupta, currently operates hyperscale data centres in Mumbai-Panvel in Maharashtra, GIFT City in Gujarat, and Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, with additional facilities planned for Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati, Indore, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, and Kochi.