“Larsen
& Toubro to establish India as a global AI powerhouse serving domestic
requirements, global hyperscalers, cloud providers, & enterprises as a
strategic AI hub with NVIDIA AI infrastructure”
Mumbai —
At the India AI Summit, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today announces a
proposed venture under the India AI Mission to build sovereign,
scalable GW-scale NVIDIA AI factory infrastructure to reinforce India’s
position as a global AI powerhouse.
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.
It
integrates L&T’s engineering, infrastructure development, and execution
with NVIDIA AI infrastructure including NVIDIA 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. It will deploy AI-ready datacenter infrastructure, advanced computing
platforms, and ecosystem enablement required to support large-scale AI
workloads across priority sectors.
In alignment with the IndiaAI Mission, this venture will
support the creation of sovereign AI infrastructure that allows critical data,
models, and AI workloads to be built, trained, and deployed within India, while
remaining interoperable with global ecosystems. This sovereign by-design fabric
is intended to serve domestic requirements, global hyperscalers, cloud
providers, and enterprises looking to deploy large-scale AI capacity from India
as a strategic hub.
The venture plans to develop gigawatt-scale AI data center
factory, providing AI-ready capacity for high-density, next-generation
workloads so customers can expand in India efficiently and sustainably.
The venture will scale NVIDIA GPU cluster deployment at its
Chennai DC up to 30 MW capacity in its 300 acres Gigawatt scalable campus &
at the new 40 MW Datacenter in Mumbai currently under execution.
This AI factory model will be able to deliver advanced AI
services to global off takers, hyperscalers & India Inc, including manufacturing,
infrastructure, energy, financial services, healthcare, and public services
thereby moving from experimentation to production-scale deployment. It is
designed to provide standardized, enterprise-grade AI capabilities, enabling
predictable performance, security, and time-to value for industrial and
services use cases.
This will also enable L&T & its group companies to
deploy live AI agents on Sovereign Cloud, fostering a self-sustaining
innovation hub like LTTS’s Lights-Out Factory framework that leverages NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to transform industrial
operations, LTM’s Blueverse and LTFS’s agentic AI deployment along with
L&T’s own AI agents developed for internal consumption.
Mr. S. N. Subrahmanyan, Chairman & Managing Director
L&T added:
“India’s enterprises are ready to move from AI pilots to production-scale
deployment. The investment establishes the foundation — secure, scalable, and
sovereign infrastructure — required to power manufacturing, energy, financial
services, healthcare, and public services. With NVIDIA’s platforms and
L&T’s execution strength, we are building infrastructure that will enable
AI to deliver measurable economic impact.”
Mr.
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA said: “AI is driving the largest
infrastructure buildout in human history—everyone will use it, every company
will be powered by it, and every country will build it. Prime Minister Modi has
outlined a bold vision to democratize AI access across the Global South and
position India as a global hub for digital infrastructure. Together with
L&T—an 88-year-old engineering and nation-building leader—we are laying the
foundation for world-class AI infrastructure that will power India’s growth and
help realize the full vision of India AI.”
The
venture is enabling AI factories at national scale—sovereign by design,
optimized for accelerated computing, and ready to serve global and domestic AI
demand, thereby advancing India’s AI Mission and its vision of “Making
AI in India and Making AI Work for India”.
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