Uber to set up first India data centre in partnership with Adani Group

Ride-hailing company plans to deepen technology and infrastructure investments in India as it expands AI, mobility and engineering operations in a key growth market

Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said the company will partner Adani Group to set up its first data centre in India, deepening its technology (tech) and infrastructure investments in one of its fastest-growing markets.

 

Khosrowshahi, who is on a five-day visit to India, said the facility, expected to become operational later this year, will help Uber test and deploy technology at scale from India for global markets. “As India fast emerges as a leading innovation hub for Uber, we are setting up our first data centre in the country with Adani Group to test and deploy our tech. Ready later this year, this investment will help us build at scale — from India, for the world,” Khosrowshahi said in a post on X.

 

During the visit, Khosrowshahi met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to discuss the company’s investment road map for India and the role mobility platforms could play in the country’s long-term economic ambitions. He also met Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu to discuss improving airport last-mile connectivity and sustainable urban mobility initiatives.

 

The partnership adds to Adani Group’s broader push into data centre and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. In 2025, AdaniConneX partnered Google on a planned AI data centre campus in Visakhapatnam, a project expected to involve investments of about $15 billion over five years.

 

Uber and Adani Group have previously partnered on mobility services. In 2024, the companies announced a collaboration to integrate Uber’s electric vehicle services into the Adani One platform and expand mobility offerings across Adani-operated airports.

 

The move comes as Uber continues to expand its technology and engineering footprint in India, which has emerged as one of the company’s key global hubs for product development and innovation. Uber is deploying AI across its safety stack — from Uber for Teens, a service that allows teenagers to book rides under parental supervision, to driver compliance tools. The company is also shifting from reactive to predictive safety measures and expanding police integrations state by state, while assessing whether those investments translate into measurable business returns.

 

India has also become Uber’s third-largest market globally by trip volume, behind only the US and Brazil, as the company sharpens its focus on one of its fastest-growing regions. According to sources, Uber plans to scale its bike taxi business, expand into smaller cities where two-wheelers and three-wheelers dominate, and build new businesses in business-to-business logistics and transit ticketing. The platform now facilitates more than 1.2 billion trips annually and has over 2 million active earners each month.

 

Uber is also expanding beyond individual riders in India to target the corporate transportation market, which the company estimates could reach $13 billion by 2030. According to the firm, transporting office workers to information technology parks, factories, and global capability centres offers the kind of scale and predictable demand seen in only a handful of mobility segments.