Submer, an immersion cooling provider, announced yesterday that it would be developing data centers in India with Anant Raj Cloud, the data center subsidiary of prominent Indian real estate development firm Anant Raj.

According to Submer, the pair have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will be exchanged at the India AI Impact Summit, taking place on February 19 and 20.

A Memorandum of Understanding, or MoU, is a low-stakes agreement that signals interest without being legally binding, and it is a common tool used by Indian state governments and data center operators to raise the public profile of a deal.

Information about the amount, size, cost, and location of these data centers was not shared.

“This partnership… establishes a blueprint for industrialised, AI application-ready data centers that can be replicated across India,” said Dev Tyagi, president of UK, India, and Asia at Submer.

Although the Spain-based Submer was founded in 2015 as a provider of indoor and outdoor single-phase cooling pods, as well as larger-scale containerized pods, the company announced last October that it would be launching its own cloud unit called InferX in an attempt to become a vertically integrated data center provider.

Submer’s partnership with Anant Raj Cloud will see the former provide its cooling technology, as well as InferX.

Anant Raj has traditionally focused on developing residential, commercial, retail, and hospitality projects, and it set up Anant Raj Cloud in 2023 to capitalize on domestic demand for data centers.

In November, the company signed another MoU with the State of Andhra Pradesh for the construction of a Rs 4,500 crore ($507m) data center in the southern Indian state.