OpenAI has partnered with India’s Tata Group to secure 100 megawatts of AI-ready data center capacity in the country, with plans to expand to 1 gigawatt. The move is part of a broader effort to deepen the company’s corporate and infrastructure footprint in one of its fastest-growing markets.
OpenAI announced on Thursday that the partnership with the Tata group is part of its Stargate project, which aims to build an AI-ready infrastructure and expand global enterprise acceptance. OpenAI will become the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ HyperVault data center, starting with a capacity of 100 megawatts. The agreement also includes the deployment of ChatGPT Enterprise across Tata’s workforce and the standardization of native AI software development using OpenAI tools.
The partnership, which falls under the “OpenAI for India” initiative, highlights the company’s expanding influence in the country, which CEO Sam Altman recently estimated has more than 100 million weekly ChatGPT users from students, teachers, developers and entrepreneurs. The scale of adoption has positioned India as one of OpenAI’s most important growth markets as it deepens business and infrastructure investment in the country.
The local data center capacity will enable OpenAI to run its most advanced models in India, reducing user latency while meeting data location, security and compliance requirements for regulated sectors and government workloads. Domestic IT hosting is essential for businesses that handle sensitive data and operate under data localization and digital infrastructure rules. These circumstances could expand OpenAI’s access to enterprise customers who require in-country processing.
The initial 100 megawatts of capacity represents a significant commitment in the context of artificial intelligence infrastructure, where training and inference of large-scale models requires power-hungry clusters of graphics processing units, or GPUs. Scaling up to 1 gigawatt would place the Tata facility among the largest AI data center deployments globally, underscoring the scope of OpenAI’s long-term ambitions in India.
In addition to infrastructure, OpenAI and the Tata Group will pursue a strategic business collaboration aimed at accelerating the adoption of AI across Tata businesses. The conglomerate plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise to its workforce in the coming years, starting with hundreds of thousands of employees at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), in what would be among the largest enterprise AI deployments in the world. TCS also intends to use OpenAI’s Codex tools to standardize native AI software development across its engineering teams.
N Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, said the OpenAI partnership will help build “state-of-the-art artificial intelligence infrastructure in India” while supporting efforts to skill the country’s workforce for the AI era.
Techcrunch event
Boston, MA
|
June 23, 2026
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, including whether OpenAI is making an equity investment in HyperVault or leasing capacity.
In November 2025, TCS secured backing from private equity firm TPG to develop AI-ready infrastructure in India for its HyperVault data center business. The platform is backed by a planned investment of around ₹180 billion (about US$2 billion) and is designed to support large-scale computing workloads for hyperscalers and enterprise customers.
OpenAI will also expand its certification programs in India, with TCS becoming the first participating organization outside the United States. The certifications are designed to help professionals build practical AI skills across roles and industries, the company said. The move follows OpenAI’s recent partnerships with leading Indian institutions in engineering, medicine and design.
OpenAI plans to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year and expand its existing presence in Delhi as it deepens operations in the country. This expansion is expected to foster corporate partnerships, developer engagement and local regulatory coordination as the company scales its footprint in India.
The announcement comes as India hosts the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, attended by world leaders in artificial intelligence, including Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Daria Amodei and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, along with Indian startups and businesses showcasing AI applications across sectors such as finance, healthcare and education.
OpenAI is expanding its presence in India through partnerships with companies including Pine Labs, JioHotstar, Eternal, Cars24, HCLTech, PhonePe, CRED and MakeMyTrip as it seeks to integrate its models into consumer platforms, enterprise systems and digital payments infrastructure in one of the world’s largest internet markets.
Together, the data center build-out, enterprise deployment and expanding partner ecosystem signal OpenAI’s most comprehensive effort yet to anchor advanced AI infrastructure and applications in India.