Vultr opens 20 MW AI supercluster in Chennai, eyes 1 GW in India by 2029

Vultr, a US cloud infrastructure provider, has launched a 20 MW AI supercluster in Chennai. The launch was on Monday, November 2, 2026, as reported by The Hindu and The Hindu BusinessLine. The site is the company's largest such facility outside the US and the largest in India. It begins with around 10,000 GPUs. Vultr did not say how much it has invested.

The company has set bigger goals for India: 600 MW by 2028 and 1 GW by 2029. Amit Rai, General Manager – AI and Enterprise Cloud at Vultr, was quoted in a report first published by The Hindu: "I would be disappointed if we don’t have 600 megawatt live by 2028, and then get into gigawatt by 2029". Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer at Vultr, said in remarks first reported by The Hindu BusinessLine: "India is emerging as a global centre for AI development and is moving beyond consuming AI technologies to actively building and developing AI applications for global markets. This engineering talent is a key driver of Vultr’s investment in the market".

Under an MoU with StartupTN, eligible Tamil Nadu start-ups will get $45,000 in computing credits with a 20 per cent discount, first reported by The Hindu BusinessLine. The Hindu first reported that the state government has enabled 150 MW at the site, with 20 MW for the first phase. It also reported that Vultr hired over 100 people in three months and that its Chennai workforce could reach 5,000. An expansion in 2027 with AMD MI455X GPUs and Helios architecture is planned.