Mukesh Ambani flies to Jamnagar the week of a landmark AI data center deal

Mukesh Ambani’s Boeing 737 MAX 9 BBJ, VT-AKV, completed a brief hop to the company’s private airstrip at Andhau Airfield, near Jamnagar, Gujarat, on June 16, 2026. The aircraft departed its home base in Mumbai at roughly 12:53 UTC and arrived at the same airfield twelve minutes later—though the flight likely originated from a stopover in the region rather than a simple out-and-back.

The arrival coincides with a major business announcement. On June 11, 2026, Reliance Industries and Meta Platforms jointly declared that Reliance will build a 168-megawatt AI-enabled data center at the Jamnagar industrial campus, as reported by GigaNectar. It is Meta’s first such facility in India, powered by renewable energy and cooled by desalinated seawater, underscoring the site’s growing role as a global infrastructure hub.

Jamnagar has become a recurring destination for Mukesh Ambani in recent years—it was the venue for his son Anant’s pre-wedding gala in 2024, which hosted Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg—but this week’s travel is tied squarely to the data center deal, adding compute weight to a long-standing Reliance-Meta partnership that began with a $5.7 billion Jio investment in 2020. [giganectar.com](https://giganectar.com/meta-reliance-jamnagar-168mw-ai-data-center-india/)