L&T Bags Rs 10,000-Crore Order To Build India's Largest AI Factory In Chennai

New Delhi: Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Thursday said it has secured an order ranging between Rs 10,000 and Rs 15,000 crore to build the country's largest single-cluster artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure facility, marking the company's foray into the AI Factory business.Through its AI infrastructure arm, LTN Compute, and L&T's AI and data centre business, Vyoma.AI, L&T will set up an NVIDIA B300-based AI Factory at its Chennai data centre campus to power the AI-native cloud platform of the US-based Together AI.The AI Factory will power the AI-native cloud platform for large-scale inference, fine-tuning and training workloads, strengthening India's AI infrastructure ecosystem while supporting global innovation, L&T said in a statement.L&T has not revealed the exact value of the order. However, under its order classification, a 'mega order' ranges between Rs 10,000 and 15,000 crore.Vyoma's Chennai data centre campus, conceived as a gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure site, has been designed with Phase 1 capacity of 250 MW and power infrastructure readiness of 150 MVA, laying a scalable foundation for future AI Factory expansion.The integrated AI Factory, with a capacity of 10,000 NVIDIA B300 GPUs, will be hosted at Vyoma's Chennai data centre, the statement added.The platform combines hyperscale data centre infrastructure, accelerated computing, high-performance networking, ultra-low-latency interconnects, high-throughput parallel storage and AI infrastructure operations, enabling customers to seamlessly deploy and scale AI workloads through a unified, end-to-end AI infrastructure stack."Artificial Intelligence is becoming foundational to every industry and AI Factories will power this transformation. Our deployment of an NVIDIA B300 AI Factory for Together AI marks a significant milestone in L&T's Gigawatt AI Infrastructure Mission and reinforces our commitment to making India a global hub for next-generation AI infrastructure", L&T Chairman & Managing Director S N Subrahmanyan said.LTN Compute, a subsidiary of Vyoma.AI, is building AI-ready digital infrastructure across the country through hyperscale AI datacentres, sovereign cloud platforms, AI Factory services, GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) and managed AI platforms to support governments, enterprises, cloud providers and AI innovators."Making AI globally accessible is going to be the biggest infrastructure build-out in human history, and L&T understands that," Together AI Co-founder & CEO Vipul Ved Prakash said. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)