Reliance To Invest ₹50,000 Crore in Assam for AI, Nuclear Energy & Data Centres

Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, announced a significant investment of ₹50,000 crore in Assam over the next five years. This investment will focus on key sectors such as artificial intelligence (AI) and nuclear energy.

Ambani made this announcement at the Advantage Assam Summit 2025, where he emphasised that Assam will become a ‘technological paradise’. He shared that ‘AI’ also stands for ‘Assam Intelligence’.

The investment plan includes establishing an AI-ready data centre, which will provide AI-assisted services to students, patients, and farmers. 

The Summit was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi, who emphasised the Northeast’s immense potential and praised Assam’s economic progress, which has doubled to ₹6 lakh crore in six years. 

Stressing improved connectivity, infrastructure, and investment opportunities, he urged industry leaders to harness Assam’s potential and join the journey towards Viksit Bharat.

Reliance will also build two world-class Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) hubs, which will produce 8 lakh tonnes of clean biogas annually, and set up a mega food park to enhance the value of Assam’s agricultural produce. 

Moreover, the company will double the number of Reliance Retail stores from 400 to 800 and construct a luxurious, seven-star Oberoi Hotel.

Ambani noted that these initiatives will create tens of thousands of direct and indirect employment opportunities for Assam’s youth. 

“At the previous Summit in 2018, Reliance committed an investment of ₹5,000 crores in Assam. Since then, our investment in the state has exceeded ₹12,000 crore. Reliance will quadruple this investment in Assam to over ₹50,000 crore over the next five years in five priority areas,” Ambani stated. 

The company aims to make Assam a hub for clean and green energy, aligning with the government’s policy on nuclear energy. 

The state also made a mark in the semiconductor industry last year by leasing over 170 acres to the Tata Group for an ₹27,000 crore fabrication facility. 

Furthermore, Reliance recently announced its plans to construct what could become the world’s largest data centre by capacity in Jamnagar. There were also plans to purchase NVIDIA’s AI semiconductors and use renewable energy sources to power the facility.

Notably, all these developments come amid a global surge in investments in AI infrastructure.