Bengaluru: Ride-hailing platform Uber is setting up its first data center in India in partnership with Adani Group, its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wednesday. This is a significant expansion of the company’s infrastructure in one of the fastest growing markets.“As India is rapidly emerging as a leading innovation hub for Uber, we are setting up our first data center in the country with Adani Group to test and deploy our technology,” Khosrowshahi said in a post on X after meeting Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad.The CEO said the investment would help the company “manufacturing at scale from India to the world” and added that the facility would be ready by the end of this year.The announcement comes at a time when global technology companies are deepening their infrastructure presence in India amid growing demand for cloud, AI and data processing capacity. It also adds to Adani Group’s growing ambitions in digital infrastructure, including data centers and connectivity. Uber already operates large technology and engineering teams in India, with Bengaluru serving as one of its largest global technology hubs outside the US.At the India AI Impact Summit in February, Adani Group had announced plans to invest $100 billion towards renewable-energy-powered, AI-ready data centers by 2035. The group had then said it was building a five-gigawatt data center platform through Adani Connex and highlighted a partnership with Google for a gigawatt-scale AI data center campus in Visakhapatnam.India’s data center market has already attracted a wide array of operators, including NTT Global Data Centers, STT GDC India, CtrlS, Sify Technologies, Nxtra by Airtel, Yotta and Equinix.Reliance Industries-backed Digital Connections, a joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, is also building capacity in the country.