L&T partners with NVIDIA to build gigawatt-scale AI data centre under IndiaAI Mission

Exam-focused facts from the 20 February 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and NVIDIA will jointly develop a gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence data centre in India as part of the government’s IndiaAI Mission.
The partnership will expand NVIDIA GPU cluster capacity to 30 megawatts at L&T’s 300-acre Chennai data centre campus, designed for future gigawatt-scale expansion.
A separate 40 megawatt data centre is under development in Mumbai to host additional AI infrastructure.
The infrastructure will integrate NVIDIA’s GPUs, CPUs, networking systems and enterprise platforms with L&T’s engineering and infrastructure capabilities.
Target sectors for AI workloads include manufacturing, energy, financial services, healthcare and public services.