🧠 Food for thought

Implications, context, and why it matters.

India is a growing base for Uber’s AI and engineering work

• The hiring plan covers teams such as Applied AI. It works on generative AI and computer vision with Uber’s product and platform groups 1.
• Uber AI Solutions is one of the company’s biggest bets. The team is building a large data foundry for AI use cases 2.
• Autonomous vehicle operations roles include Hyderabad teams that run human-in-the-loop (HITL) annotation for machine learning and AI work. That includes 2D and 3D LiDAR (a laser-based sensing technology used to map surroundings) labeling to train models 3.
• The new data center adds to that global role. Uber plans to use it to build and scale technology for operations across its network 4.

The Adani deal hints at a new way to build tech infrastructure in India

• Uber chose Adani Group, an Indian conglomerate with businesses across infrastructure, energy, and logistics, for its India data center instead of building the site on its own. The source material does not say if Uber weighed global cloud providers 4.
• The partnership gives Uber access to land and power, which data center projects need in large amounts 4.
• Adani Enterprises is also building what has been described as India’s largest AI data center campus in Visakhapatnam through AdaniConneX. The project involves Google, Bharti Airtel, an Indian telecom operator, and other ecosystem partners, with an estimated US$15 billion investment from 2026 to 2030 4.
• The setup could guide multinationals that want local computing capacity as data localization rules and AI demand raise the need for in-country infrastructure 4.