OpenAI has struck a major infrastructure deal with India’s Tata Group, securing 100 megawatts (MW) of AI-ready data centre capacity in the country with an ambition to scale that to 1 gigawatt (GW) over time. The move deepens OpenAI’s enterprise and infrastructure push in one of its fastest-growing markets and anchors a significant part of its global expansion strategy in India.
The partnership is part of OpenAI’s Stargate project, an initiative focused on building large-scale AI infrastructure and driving enterprise adoption worldwide. Under the deal, OpenAI becomes the first customer of Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) HyperVault data centre business, starting with the initial 100MW allocation.
The Tata partnership positions India as a key node in OpenAI’s global compute network. The 100MW capacity, dedicated to AI workloads, will support both training and running advanced models that require dense clusters of GPUs and significant power. OpenAI’s plan to eventually scale to 1GW would put the Tata facility among the largest AI-focused data centre deployments globally, underscoring the scale of its long-term commitment.
The deal builds on TCS’s HyperVault platform, which was backed in November 2025 by private equity firm TPG to develop AI-ready infrastructure in India. HyperVault is supported by about ₹180 billion (around $2 billion) in planned investment and is designed to handle large-scale compute needs for hyperscalers and enterprise customers. OpenAI now steps in as its anchor AI customer.
By hosting compute domestically, OpenAI will be able to run its most advanced models from within India. That is strategically important for several reasons:
Lower latency: Running models locally can reduce response times for users and applications across India.
Data residency and compliance: Domestic infrastructure helps meet data localization, security, and regulatory requirements, especially for sectors like finance, healthcare, and government.
Enterprise access: In-country processing is often a prerequisite for regulated enterprises considering large-scale AI adoption.
OpenAI frames the partnership within its “OpenAI for India” initiative, which focuses on local infrastructure, enterprise adoption, and workforce development. CEO Sam Altman has previously estimated that India has more than 100 million weekly ChatGPT users, including students, teachers, developers and entrepreneurs. That level of usage has made India one of OpenAI’s most important growth markets, and the new deal aims to translate that consumer momentum into deeper enterprise and infrastructure ties.
Beyond the data centre build-out, OpenAI and Tata Group are setting up a broad enterprise collaboration designed to accelerate AI adoption across the conglomerate’s businesses.
Tata plans to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise across its workforce over the coming years, beginning with hundreds of thousands of employees at TCS. If executed at that scale, it would amount to one of the largest enterprise AI deployments globally, embedding conversational AI into day-to-day work for large corporate teams.
TCS also intends to use OpenAI’s Codex tools to standardize AI-native software development practices across its engineering teams. That could influence how the company designs, codes and maintains applications for clients worldwide, aligning its development workflows with OpenAI’s toolchain.
N. Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons, has positioned the partnership as a way to build “state-of-the-art AI infrastructure in India” and support efforts to skill the country’s workforce for the AI era. That workforce focus is reflected in the training and certification components attached to the deal.
OpenAI plans to expand its certification programs in India, with TCS becoming the first participating organization outside the United States. These certifications are aimed at helping professionals across different roles and industries build practical AI skills. The initiative follows OpenAI’s recent partnerships with leading Indian institutions in engineering, medicine and design, indicating a push to seed AI expertise across both academia and industry.
At the same time, OpenAI is expanding its on-the-ground presence. The company plans to open new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year, adding to its existing presence in New Delhi. These locations are expected to support enterprise partnerships, developer outreach and regulatory engagement as OpenAI scales its operations in India.
The announcement coincides with India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, where global AI leaders, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, are participating. Indian startups and enterprises are using the summit to showcase AI applications in finance, healthcare, education and other sectors, underscoring how quickly AI is moving from experimentation to production use in the country.
OpenAI has been steadily building a partner ecosystem in India across consumer, enterprise and financial services platforms. Its collaborations span companies such as Pine Labs, JioHotstar, Eternal, Cars24, HCLTech, PhonePe, CRED and MakeMyTrip. Through these partnerships, OpenAI’s models are being embedded into consumer apps, enterprise workflows and digital payments infrastructure in one of the world’s largest internet markets.
The Tata data centre capacity, the planned expansion to 1GW, the rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex within Tata, the certification programs and the new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru mark OpenAI’s most comprehensive effort so far to root its advanced AI infrastructure and applications in India.
Paul Balo is the founder of TechBooky and a highly skilled wireless communications professional with a strong background in cloud computing, offering extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing wireless communication systems.
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