St. Pete tech giant, Indian conglomerate form data center platform alliance

St. Petersburg technology manufacturing giant Jabil Inc. plans to partner with an Indian company to build an AI and data center manufacturing platform as the facilities expand across the South Asian country.

Jabil and Ahmedabad-based Adani Group say in a joint statement issued Monday that the partnership combines Jabil’s advanced engineering, cross-industry manufacturing expertise and hyperscale data center solutions with Adani’s infrastructure footprint, green energy portfolio and logistics network to expand domestic data center operations.

The alliance comes as Adani, India’s largest infrastructure conglomerate, has committed $100 billion to develop five gigawatts of green-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centers by 2035. (According to IBM, a hyperscale data center is a massive data center that provides extreme scalability capabilities.)

According to the companies, the “core pillars” for the platform include:

• Giga-scale AI rack architecture to serve the infrastructure needs of global hyperscalers, co-location facilities and enterprise data centers through the advanced manufacturing and the addition of next-generation liquid-cooled AI racks, servers, storage and networking. (Hyperscalers, according to the Cloud Security Alliance, are large-scale cloud service providers that offer massive computing resources — think Amazon Web Services).
• 360-Degree AI infrastructure ecosystems which will encompasses full-spectrum white space and grey space device manufacturing including power distribution units, coolant distribution units, transformers and advanced thermal management systems.

Part of the reasoning for creating the partnership, the companies say, is India's data center industry projects capacity to reach between five to eight gigawatts by 2030, fueled by growing AI demand, cloud expansion and data localization requirements.

Jabil and Adani say they are currently working on the definitive operational frameworks and the final documents to establish the alliance.

Financial details were not disclosed and a Jabil spokesperson says in a Monday email that “as we are still targeting the alliance, we don't have details to share on the investment at this point.”

Jabil is a multinational manufacturing, design and supply chain solutions company that makes parts for major companies.

The company, according to the spokesperson, provides a variety of thermal management solutions for data centers, including liquid cooling and other power management technologies that help support data center efficiency. Jabil had $29.8 billion in revenue in 2025.