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OpenAI has signed a landmark deal with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), making it the first customer of TCS’s new data centre business, starting with 100 megawatts of capacity. This partnership is part of the ambitious $500 billion Stargate AI initiative, a global project backed by major investors to build massive AI data centres for model training and inference. Announced on February 19, 2026, the collaboration also includes Tata Group rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise across its companies, beginning with hundreds of thousands of employees over the next several years.
The agreement represents a strategic pivot for TCS, which last year revealed plans to invest up to $7 billion in a 1-gigawatt data centre division in India. As OpenAI’s inaugural client commitment in this venture, it positions Tata as a key player in India’s surging AI infrastructure landscape, where global giants like Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Reliance, and Adani are ramping up investments.
Under the dual pact, Tata Group will leverage OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise to train its vast workforce, enhancing productivity amid India’s booming adoption of the tool—now boasting over 100 million weekly users. This move aligns with OpenAI’s global expansion, mirroring partnerships like those with Oracle and SoftBank for U.S. data centres.
