The tech wing of Indian multinational Tata has reportedly acquired land parcels in southern and western India for data centers that could be used by OpenAI.

A report by The Economic Times says that the government of Andhra Pradesh – a state located on the eastern coast of southern India – allotted 200 acres of land to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the Anakapalli suburb, around 35km (22 miles) from the city of Visakhapatnam. TCS also bought an 88-acre land parcel in the suburb of Bopkhel, around 25km (16 miles) north of the city of Pune, located in the western state of Maharashtra.

The report does not explicitly state that these data centers would be used by OpenAI.

But in February, OpenAI announced that Tata would be a partner in its ‘OpenAI for India’ initiative, which would see the construction of “local, AI-ready data center capacity”. The ChatGPT-maker then said that it would be the first customer of Tata’s data center business HyperVault, beginning with 100MW of capacity potentially scaling to 1GW.

HyperVault was launched back in October 2025 to build 1GW worth of data centers.

The current data center footprint of TCS, one of the largest technology companies in the world, is unclear. Its sister company, Tata Communications, reportedly operates around 22 data centers in 16 markets across five countries: India, the UK, Singapore, Portugal, and the US.

The Tata Group was founded as a trading company back in the 1860s by members of the Tata family. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, originally known as Tata Computer Systems, was established in 1968 by initially providing punch cards to sister company TISCO (now Tata Steel).

OpenAI is also developing data centers in the US, Norway, the UAE, Australia, and South Korea, with potential campuses in Argentina and Canada. The company backed out of its UK investment pledge in April, saying that they would move forward when the “right conditions" such as regulation and the cost of energy, enable long-term infrastructure investment.”