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New Delhi: Infrastructure development, including power plants, power transmission networks, data centres, and logistics facilities, will be crucial for future artificial intelligence (AI) development, said Gautam Adani, the chairman of the widening conglomerate that owns the country’s biggest shipping, port, and airport networks. During the annual letter to the shareholders, the chairman of Adani group presented a picture of the growth trajectory of the business and confidence about the subsequent growth trajectory.
The group has seen a fresh phase beyond the legal and regulatory challenges in the U.S. market, and now it is fully geared up for growth, Adani said. Though they’ve seen more, he said they have an expansion strategy in place in spite of all the attention in the last year. Now the focus of the group has shifted to developing infrastructure on a large scale that can cater to the future requirements of India’s economy and technology, he said.
One big talking point of Adani’s message was the linkage between AI and Infrastructure. However, he said that the more advanced and widely adopted AI technologies become, they will need significant electrical consumption and digital systems to operate. Speaking about this, Adani said: “The first thing to happen is the flow of energy to fuel the thought of AI. If they need to think, they have to have electric energy.
The Adani Group has already begun to expand its investments in areas that are well poised to grow with the demand for AI. The conglomerate had made over ₹1.5 lakh crore investments in the companies during the financial year 2025-26, which is one of its biggest investment programs in the year in the conglomerate’s history. These investments included renewable energy, transmission networks, ports and airports, manufacturing plants, and digital infrastructure.
The company is also making great strides in clean energy. In that year, Adani Green Energy added another 5.1 GW of RE capacity, raising its total installed capacity to over 19 GW. Meanwhile, as part of his clean energy vision, Adani New Industries launched a pilot, 5 MeG project, involving green hydrogen.
The group is also actively engaged in the digital infrastructure. Adani announced its aim of setting up 2 GW data centre platform by 2030. The company has also inked a deal with Google for a big data centre facility in the city of Visakhapatnam. These facilities are designed to help enable growth in AI workloads and digital services in the forthcoming years.
The group continued to have strong financial gains. The combined revenue grew 7.4% year-on-year to ₹2.92 lakh crore, whereas the PAT went up 13.9% to its FY26 figure of ₹46,377 crore. The firm also cited its rights issue in Adani Enterprises valued at ₹24,930 crore as a positive investor sentiment.
Moving forward, the primary hurdle is not about sourcing funds but about development being done at an appropriate pace to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for energy in India and for infrastructure and AI-powered digital services, Adani said. He thinks that those nations that are investing more in developing their infrastructure will have the advantage in the era of artificial intelligence.
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