India’s AI compute build-out has picked up another international tenant. OneQode, a Singapore-headquartered operator of AI compute and network infrastructure, has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data centre capacity at Siruseri SIPCOT in Chennai. The company describes the deal, announced on 28 October, as its first major AI infrastructure deployment in India.

The two companies are also in continuing discussions on additional capacity of up to 114 MW in India. OneQode said that if the larger expansion materialises, it could translate into more than US$6 billion in total contract value from GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) revenue. The signed agreement currently covers the initial 14 MW.

What the Chennai capacity will run

According to OneQode, the Chennai deployment is meant for large-scale AI training and inference, enterprise AI and sovereign AI workloads. It sits within the company’s wider Asia-Pacific expansion, which also includes a deployment in Thailand.

The build-out draws on OneQode’s collaboration with AMD announced in May 2026. Initial clusters are planned around AMD Instinct GPUs, and the company has said it intends to adopt AMD’s Helios rack-scale platform as part of its broader rollout. OneQode was named an AMD Instinct Cloud Provider in August.

“India is becoming one of the most important markets for AI infrastructure globally,” said Johnny Blackfield, Chief Growth Officer and President, EMEA & India at OneQode. “Working with AdaniConneX gives us a strong foundation to build at scale in Chennai.” He pointed to India’s infrastructure, competitive operating costs and room to scale as reasons the market is compelling for the company’s customers.

Why India, and why Chennai

OneQode positions India as a strategic midpoint between EMEA and Asia-Pacific. As inference workloads become more sensitive to latency, the company wants compute in India that can serve customers in both regions, linked to its own carrier-grade network. The Chennai site will plug into that network, which spans more than 30 data centres across five continents.

Chennai has become one of India’s main data centre hubs, helped by subsea cable landings and state support for digital infrastructure. AdaniConneX, a 50:50 joint venture between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX, opened its Chennai 1 hyperscale campus at SIPCOT IT Park in 2022 and is building towards a 1 GW national platform.

A busy month for AI capacity in India

The OneQode agreement follows a run of large compute announcements involving AdaniConneX. Earlier this month, CoreWeave said it plans 240 MW of capacity at AdaniConneX’s Taloja campus in Navi Mumbai. Together, these deals point to rising demand from global AI cloud providers for Indian capacity, as power and space tighten in other markets and Indian enterprises and government programmes look for locally hosted compute for sovereign AI.

For Indian enterprises and AI startups, more GPU-as-a-service capacity in the country could ease the multi-month waits for accelerators that many have reported this year, and give regulated sectors more options to keep sensitive workloads and data onshore.

Source: OneQode press release (PR Newswire, 28 October 2026).

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