Science, Discovery, Tech and Environment · 17 August 2026

L&T's Vyoma.AI to build India's largest Nvidia B300 AI factory in Chennai for Together AI

Exam-focused facts from the 17 August 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

  • Vyoma.AI, the data centre business of L&T, secured India's largest single-cluster AI infrastructure order for a 10,000-GPU Nvidia B300 AI factory.
  • The AI factory will be set up at Vyoma's Chennai data centre campus, which has a gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure site with Phase-1 designed for 250 MW and power infrastructure readiness of 150 MVA.
  • The order is valued at ₹10,000-15,000 crore and will power an AI-native cloud platform for large-scale inferencing, fine-tuning, and training workloads.
  • The AI factory is being built for US-based startup Together AI, which also signed a $240 million multi-year deal with IBM to build a large-scale AI cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems.