In a landmark move unveiled at the India AI Summit, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced a proposed venture under the India AI Mission to build what it calls India’s largest sovereign, gigawatt-scale AI factory powered by NVIDIA infrastructure.
The ambitious project aims to position India as a global AI powerhouse — delivering production-grade AI capacity not just for domestic enterprises, but also for global hyperscalers, cloud providers, and multinational companies seeking large-scale AI deployment from India.
The venture will integrate L&T’s engineering and infrastructure capabilities with NVIDIA’s full-stack AI platform, including GPUs, CPUs, networking, accelerated storage platforms, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack, and reference architectures.
Together, the partners plan to deploy AI-ready data center infrastructure and advanced computing platforms capable of supporting next-generation, high-density AI workloads across critical sectors.
At the core of the initiative is the creation of sovereign AI infrastructure — enabling critical data, AI models, and workloads to be built, trained, and deployed within India while remaining interoperable with global ecosystems. The design is “sovereign by default,” ensuring security, scalability, and compliance for sensitive workloads.
The proposed AI factory will scale NVIDIA GPU cluster deployment at L&T’s Chennai data center up to 30 MW capacity within its 300-acre gigawatt-scalable campus. In parallel, a new 40 MW data center in Mumbai — currently under execution — will further expand AI-ready capacity.
The model is designed to move India Inc from experimentation to full-scale AI production, delivering standardized, enterprise-grade AI capabilities with predictable performance, security, and faster time-to-value. Key sectors targeted include manufacturing, infrastructure, energy, financial services, healthcare, and public services.
The infrastructure will also enable L&T and its group companies to deploy live AI agents on a Sovereign Cloud, accelerating internal digital transformation initiatives such as LTTS’s Lights-Out Factory framework leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, LTM’s Blueverse platform, LTFS’s agentic AI deployments, and L&T’s own internally developed AI agents.
SN Subrahmanyan, Chairman & Managing Director, L&T, said: “India’s enterprises are ready to move from AI pilots to production-scale deployment. The investment establishes the foundation — secure, scalable, and sovereign infrastructure — required to power manufacturing, energy, financial services, healthcare, and public services. With NVIDIA’s platforms and L&T’s execution strength, we are building infrastructure that will enable AI to deliver measurable economic impact.”
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “AI is driving the largest infrastructure buildout in human history—everyone will use it, every company will be powered by it, and every country will build it. Prime Minister Modi has outlined a bold vision to democratize AI access across the Global South and position India as a global hub for digital infrastructure.
"Together with L&T—an 88-year-old engineering and nation-building leader—we are laying the foundation for world-class AI infrastructure that will power India’s growth and help realize the full vision of India AI.”
With gigawatt-scale ambitions and national-level infrastructure planning, the L&T–NVIDIA venture signals a decisive shift: India is not just adopting AI — it is building the backbone to power it at global scale.
