MUMBAI — Meta announced a major partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance on Thursday, securing a 168-megawatt data center to ensure the subcontinent's power grid can help shoulder the immense global burden of generating useless AI features.
The sprawling new facility, representing Meta's first artificial intelligence data center in India, is expected to draw enough electricity to power a medium-sized city in order to instantly provide billions of global users with confident, fully hallucinated answers about local store hours.
For years, the massive energy required to automatically generate a picture of a dog riding a skateboard for a Facebook comment was drawn primarily from North American and European grids,
Hurlburt noted that the 168-megawatt campus is highly scalable, allowing Meta to draw even more power from the local grid as the company rolls out heavier compute features, such as an AI assistant that aggressively interrupts Instagram direct messages to suggest non-existent restaurants.
Reliance Industries executives celebrated the deal as a milestone for India's tech sector, emphasizing that the partnership will create dozens of local security guard jobs while ensuring that megawatts of domestically produced energy are successfully transformed into automated replies and bizarrely proportioned AI hands.
Meta confirmed the facility will be fully operational by next year, just in time to support a planned software update that will require 40 percent more electricity to summarize unread family group chats incorrectly.