Jabil partners with Adani Group to build AI data center manufacturing platform in India

Jabil Inc., the St. Petersburg-based manufacturing and supply chain giant with $29.8 billion in 2025 revenue, has announced a partnership with India's Adani Group to build an AI and data center manufacturing platform. The alliance, disclosed June 15, 2026, targets India's expanding data center market, which the companies estimate will reach five to eight gigawatts of capacity by 2030. The platform's core pillars include giga-scale AI rack architecture, liquid-cooled AI racks, servers, storage, and networking, plus full-spectrum power distribution and thermal management systems. Adani has committed $100 billion to develop five gigawatts of green-energy-powered hyperscale data centers by 2035, and Jabil will provide advanced engineering, cross-industry manufacturing expertise, and thermal management solutions including liquid cooling technologies.

This partnership represents a significant expansion of Jabil's role in the data center supply chain, moving beyond component manufacturing into platform-level integration. For the additive manufacturing industry, the development signals growing demand for advanced thermal management hardware-liquid cooling manifolds, cold plates, heat exchangers-that are increasingly produced via metal AM processes such as LPBF and DED. Jabil's existing AM capabilities, including its metal and polymer production services, position it to supply complex, high-performance cooling components for AI racks, where geometric freedom and material efficiency offer advantages over conventional machining. The partnership also underscores the broader trend of hyperscale data center buildout driving demand for specialized manufacturing services, a segment where AM-enabled production can capture value through short-run customization and rapid iteration on thermal designs.

From a practical standpoint, Jabil must now execute on integrating its manufacturing footprint with Adani's infrastructure and green energy portfolio, a complex operational challenge that will test its supply chain coordination at scale. For AM industry observers, the concrete takeaway is that data center thermal management is becoming a credible application vertical for metal AM, particularly for liquid cooling components where complex internal channels and thin-wall geometries are difficult to produce conventionally. The partnership's success will depend on Jabil's ability to deliver repeatable, qualified production volumes rather than prototype-level demonstrations, and on whether the cost structure of AM-produced thermal hardware can compete with established casting and machining supply chains at the gigawatt scale Adani envisions.