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In an important development amid the ongoing AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, leading Indian firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday announced a proposed venture with chip-maker NVIDIA to create sovereign AI infrastructure, build India’s largest Gigawatt-scale AI factory, and transform India into a strategic hub.
The venture has been announced under the India AI Mission and will help build a sovereign, scalable GW-scale NVIDIA AI factory infrastructure to strengthen India’s position as a global Artificial Intelligence powerhouse.
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Indian enterprises, policymakers, industry leaders, global off-takers, and analysts seeking production-grade AI capacity are likely to benefit from this development.
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L&T issued a statement on the key development and said: “It integrates L&T’s engineering, infrastructure development and execution with NVIDIA AI infrastructure including NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, Networking, NVIDIA-accelerated storage platforms from leading providers, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack and reference architectures to enable rapid, secure AI adoption. It will deploy AI-ready datacenter infrastructure, advanced computing platforms and ecosystem enablement required to support large-scale AI workloads across priority sectors.
“In alignment with the IndiaAI Mission, this venture will support the creation of sovereign AI infrastructure that allows critical data, models and AI workloads to be built, trained and deployed within India, while remaining interoperable with global ecosystems. This sovereign by-design fabric is intended to serve domestic requirements, global hyperscalers, cloud providers and enterprises looking to deploy large-scale AI capacity from India as a strategic hub.”
The venture would help AI firms looking to expand in India do so “efficiently and sustainably”.
At the India AI Summit, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today announces a proposed venture under the India AI Mission to build sovereign, scalable GW-scale NVIDIA AI factory infrastructure to reinforce India’s position as a global AI powerhouse. This partnership is aimed at India’s… pic.twitter.com/y6S45dcME2
— ANI (@ANI) February 18, 2026
SN Subrahmanyan, Chairman & Managing Director – L&T, said on the occasion: “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, added: “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 democratise 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 realise the full vision of India AI”.
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