OneQode, a global performance digital infrastructure provider, has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 megawatts of data centre capacity at Siruseri Sipcot in Chennai, marking its first major artificial intelligence infrastructure deployment in India. The deal, announced on 28 October 2026, places Chennai at the centre of OneQode’s India plans at a time when demand for AI computing power is growing rapidly across the country.
The Chennai deployment will support large-scale AI training and inference, enterprise AI and sovereign AI workloads. In practical terms, that covers the full cycle of modern AI: training powerful models on vast amounts of data, running those models to answer questions and generate content, and doing so for businesses and for sensitive applications where data must remain within national boundaries. It is a broad mandate, and it reflects how central data centres have become to the AI economy.
The agreement is also part of a wider Asia-Pacific expansion for OneQode, alongside its work in Thailand. But India is clearly the larger prize. Discussions are continuing on additional capacity of up to 114 megawatts in India, which could generate over 6 billion US dollars in graphics processing unit as a service, or GPUaaS, total contract value for OneQode. That figure underlines the scale of the opportunity: companies are increasingly renting access to powerful AI chips by the hour rather than buying the hardware themselves, and the providers of the facilities that house those chips stand to benefit.
Johnny Blackfield, Chief Growth Officer and President, EMEA and India at OneQode, said: “India is becoming one of the most important markets for AI infrastructure globally. Working with AdaniConneX gives us a strong foundation to build at scale in Chennai. We have secured our initial 14 MW deployment and are continuing discussions on additional capacity opportunities of up to 114 MW in India as demand grows.”
The choice of Chennai is significant. For AI workloads, location matters in ways that go beyond a pin on a map. Data centres need reliable power at scale, effective cooling for equipment that generates enormous heat, strong connectivity to move vast amounts of data quickly, and room to expand as demand grows. A site that can offer those foundations at competitive operating costs, with space to scale from an initial deployment to a much larger footprint, has a natural advantage. Chennai’s position as a coastal city with established industrial infrastructure also fits the pattern of AI hubs growing beyond the traditional metro centres.
The deal also illustrates a broader shift in how India’s digital infrastructure is being built. Rather than a single company doing everything, partnerships are becoming the norm: a global infrastructure specialist brings its AI platform and customer relationships, while a domestic data centre operator provides the physical facilities, power and local scale. AdaniConneX, as one of India’s large data centre operators, offers exactly that kind of foundation. For OneQode, the partnership reduces the time and risk involved in entering a new market at scale.
For Chennai, the agreement adds another chapter to its emergence as a serious data centre location, and a reminder that behind every AI answer sits a building full of servers drawing power and needing cooling.
