Uber Partners with Adani for First India Data Center

Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi met Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani in Ahmedabad on Wednesday to announce a partnership for the company's first data center in India.

Khosrowshahi shared details in a post on X, stating, "Great to meet gautam_adani in Ahmedabad this morning and build on our existing partnership with the Adani group. As India fast emerges as a leading innovation hub for Uber, we are setting up our first data center in the country with the 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." Adani replied, "A great pleasure to meet my friend Dara dkhos! What a run Uber is having! Magnificent performance globally! Our partnerships continue to grow."

The facility, developed through Adani's data center arm AdaniConneX, aims to bolster Uber's real-time platform, which handles ride matching, dynamic pricing, navigation, demand forecasting and safety monitoring. Localizing computing power in India will reduce latency, enhance app performance in dense urban areas and boost reliability during peak demand, when millions of ride requests are processed each second. Company officials...