St. Petersburg, FL-based Jabil Inc. has announced the launch of its Connected AI Ecosystem, an initiative to support customers across the AI infrastructure value chain. The company is partnering with India’s Adani Group to combine Jabil’s six decades of engineering and advanced manufacturing expertise with Adani’s infrastructure and energy platform. Together, they aim to deliver rack-level solutions for hyperscalers and enterprises in India and worldwide.
India’s rapid rise as a fast-growing AI market, supported by a skilled workforce and favorable business environment, makes it a key location for this collaboration. Jabil and Adani are developing operational frameworks and formal agreements to advance the venture.
According to Jabil CEO Mike Dastoor, the partnership merges Jabil’s “engineering expertise” with Adani’s “formidable infrastructure and energy platform.”
The alliance seeks to establish large-scale manufacturing capacity for AI-ready data center infrastructure in India. Plans include production of Power Distribution Units, Coolant Distribution Units, transformers, switchgear, busbars, and thermal management systems, enabling multi-gigawatt manufacturing capacity for high-density AI racks. The scope also covers liquid-cooled AI systems, servers, storage platforms, networking equipment, and critical facility infrastructure to support large-scale AI operations.
Adani contributes a rapidly expanding data center footprint, logistics capabilities, and a large renewable energy portfolio, while Jabil brings global experience supporting hyperscale deployments. The venture’s goal is straightforward: to manufacture the hardware underpinning next-generation AI data centers for both domestic and international demand.
The announcement comes as India ramps up investments in digital infrastructure, with industry estimates projecting domestic data center capacity to reach 5-8 gigawatts by 2030, driven by AI adoption, cloud expansion and data localization requirements. Mike Dastoor, CEO of Jabil says the collaboration combines Jabil’s “engineering expertise” with Adani’s “formidable infrastructure and energy platform”
The companies plan to build an integrated manufacturing ecosystem in India to supply the hardware underpinning next-generation AI data centers.
Production will include liquid-cooled AI systems, servers, storage platforms, and networking equipment, leveraging advanced surface mount technology and complex integration processes. Beyond computing hardware, the alliance will also manufacture critical facility infrastructure to support large-scale AI operations.
Gautam Adani, Chairman of Adani Group, said: “The world is entering an Intelligence Revolution more profound than any previous Industrial Revolution.
“Nations that master the symmetry between energy and compute will shape the next decade, India is uniquely positioned to lead.”
