SentraForge AI and financial partner GVPR are developing a ₹22,634 crore (~$2.7 billion USD) AI infrastructure mega-project in Odisha, India, targeting AI-driven employment and compute capacity.
India's AI ambitions require Rs 22,634 crore to address a fundamental gap—the infrastructure needed to support the technology at scale. SentraForge AI is mobilizing this investment for a proposed 120 MW sovereign AI campus in Odisha, one that addresses both immediate and evolving infrastructure demands.
Behind this scale lies a practical reality: an AI model may answer a question in seconds, but enabling that performance demands powerful computing systems, reliable electricity, advanced cooling and high-speed connectivity. As organizations increasingly deploy AI into operations, these requirements become harder to satisfy.
SentraForge AI's stated mission extends beyond providing data centre capacity. The company aims to build the infrastructure, cloud platforms and services that organizations need to deploy AI effectively. The project has already secured requisite approvals from the Odisha government and is advancing through detailed engineering, procurement and service readiness phases. Its proposal for an AI data centre and global capability centre received approval at the state's 46th High-Level Clearance Authority meeting, with backing and oversight from Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi.
Hyderabad-based GVPR Engineers Limited serves as SentraForge AI's core equity backer, combining financial support with large-scale infrastructure development expertise. GVPR Engineer Chairman G. Siva Shankar Reddy's involvement reflects the company's commitment to both funding and executing the campus build. This partnership brings GVPR's infrastructure expertise together with SentraForge AI's focus on sovereign compute and cloud services.
The campus will support model training, fine-tuning and inference—covering the full pipeline of how AI models are developed, adapted for specific tasks and deployed operationally. Its infrastructure encompasses AI compute capacity, cloud platforms, data services, secure systems and managed AI services, all designed to handle continuous, reliable operation rather than experimental workloads.
SentraForge AI, led by CEO and co-founder Karthik Krishnan, frames its vision around sovereignty—a concept that extends beyond data residency. Sovereignty, as the company defines it, means greater control over the computing systems, cloud platforms and operations managing that data. For organizations handling critical workloads, where systems run matters less than who operates them and how they are governed. SentraForge AI's platform aims to provide users greater control over these operational and governance aspects as they build and deploy AI infrastructure.