According to reports, social media giant Meta is likely to house its first data centre in India at the Reliance Industries campus in Chennai. This will help the American company process user-generated content locally across its flagship apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Following discussions at the recently concluded pre-wedding celebrations of Ambani's son Anant, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company inked a deal with RIL.

Four to five nodes across multiple locations across the country will allow for faster data processing in what is its largest market. At the moment, data from Indian users of Meta products is serviced at its data center in Singapore. Local advertisements will enhance user experience and cut transmission costs from global data hubs with a local data center.

A three-way joint venture between Brookfield Asset Management, Reliance Industries and Digital Realty is behind the 10-acre campus in Chennai's Ambattur Industrial Estate. It's capable of handling up to a hundred megawatt IT load.

The Llama series of open-source large language models is used by Indian enterprises. It is being used to create applications and to fine-tune models trained on proprietary data. It is being used to create applications.

"Meta would aim for greenfield data centres across key regions including Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi NCR, which can suffice its strong infrastructure requirements from fibre to power,” says Neil Shah, partner at technology research firm Counterpoint Research.

In India, Facebook has 314 million users, Instagram has 350 million, and WhatsApp has 490 million. The number of internet users in India is nearly doubles that in its home nation, the United States.