OpenAI to bring Stargate to India with Tata Group: US-based OpenAI is in advanced talks with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to expand its AI compute footprint in India as part of its Stargate initiative, Economic Times reports. The potential collaboration would mark the entry of OpenAI’s Stargate India chapter as TCS accelerates its AI ambitions.

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The collaboration could see OpenAI leasing capacity from HyperVault, the new data center arm of TCS, and co-developing agentic AI solutions for large enterprise clients.

Infrastructure angle: TCS and private-equity group TPG plan to invest up to INR 180 bn (USD 2.1 bn) in HyperVault to build gigawatt-scale, AI-ready data centers to serve cloud and AI workloads. OpenAI is exploring leasing a share of that capacity rather than taking an equity stake, and the proposed arrangement could cover at least 500 MW of compute capacity, the news outlet reports.

Enterprise focus: The collaboration would target sectors including banking and financial services, retail, consumer goods, and manufacturing, with deployments centered on enterprise use cases. India is the second-largest market by user base for ChatGPT after the US, the daily added.

Global footprint: The talks align with OpenAI’s wider push to expand compute capacity under its Stargate model across markets including the UAE, Norway, the UK, Argentina, Japan, France, and the US.

Competitive backdrop: OpenAI previously held exploratory discussions with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries for similar access to compute infrastructure, but the two parties failed to agree on terms. Reliance is separately developing a 1 GW compute hub in Jamnagar, Gujarat, with partners including Google and Meta. The Adani Group is also teaming up with Google to develop a 1 GW data center in Andhra Pradesh.

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