Reliance Industries Limited plans to invest Rs1.6 lakh crore (more than $17 billion) to develop a 1.5 GW AI-focused data centre cluster in Visakhapatnam with captive solar and battery storage, with the first 500 MW targeted for October 2028, according to reports cited by BloombergNEF. BloombergNEF said Reliance Industries Limited together with Adani Group has committed $210 billion to data centre development in India, accounting for 45% of total announced investment, with around 95% aimed at large hyperscale AI campuses.

Reliance Industries Limited-backed Jio-bp, the operating brand of Reliance BP Mobility joint venture with bp, partnered with Hyundai Motor India Limited to integrate networks, bringing its more than 7,000 charging points across 300-plus cities onto Hyundai's platform while making Hyundai Motor India Limited's 183 DC fast-charging stations available on the Jio-bp pulse charge pro app.

Reliance Industries Limited has announced a 168-MW AI-enabled data centre in Jamnagar which will be leased and used by Meta as its first built-to-suit centre in India, as part of the broader pipeline that Anarock says will lift national capacity to over 6.7 GW by 2030.

Reliance Industries Ltd is evaluating an entry into aluminium production to utilize fuel from its planned coal gasification business to improve commercial viability, according to four people cited by Mint. The plans remain exploratory, but Reliance Industries Ltd participated in the recent auction for the Karlapat bauxite block in Odisha and has won Recherla and Chintalpudi coal blocks in Andhra Pradesh for a proposed coal gasification project, with a reported Rs 2.73 trillion investment proposal over 30 years.

Reliance Industries Limited said shareholders on August 20 approved three resolutions with requisite majority, including material related-party transactions involving the company and its subsidiaries and an expansion of its objects clause to include production, processing, sale and distribution of ammonium nitrate, explosives, blasting agents, fertilisers and agro-chemicals.

Reliance Industries Limited has proposed to invest Rs 2.73 lakh crore over 30 years to develop India's first integrated Underground Coal Gasification complex at Chintalapudi and Recherla blocks in Eluru district, Andhra Pradesh, subject to commercial viability post exploration. The company secured the blocks through a coal ministry e-auction and will invest up to Rs 3,000 crore in exploration and pilot phase from Q3 2026 to Q4 2027, Rs 1,20,000 crore in development from 2028-30 and Rs 1,50,000 crore in production from 2030 onwards, with estimated 3,000-5,000 direct jobs and 20,000-35,000 indirect livelihoods.

Reliance Industries Limited is operating its export-focused refineries at consistently high utilization, enabling India to act as Asia's swing supplier as wars in Iran and Ukraine disrupt Middle Eastern and Russian fuel supplies, according to Rystad Energy.

Reliance Industries Limited's Reliance Retail covered 5,500 pin codes in the June quarter through more than 2,500 digital, fashion and lifestyle stores linked to JioMart, offering grocery delivery in under 30 minutes and other categories within two hours, with grocery digital orders rising 116% year-on-year, illustrating a hybrid physical-store and dark-store fulfilment model.

Reliance Industries Limited was named by Elara Capital as a potential developer beneficiary of India's SHANTI Act, 2025, and draft SHANTI Rules, 2026, which propose a single composite licence for private nuclear facilities and access to approved domestic and foreign technologies. The article noted Reliance Industries Limited shares have fallen 15.8% so far in 2026, and JM Financial cautioned that the nuclear opportunity remains long term with rules and procedures still to be finalized.