When Larsen & Toubro announced last week that it had won a contract worth up to Rs 15,000 crore to build an AI factory in Chennai for US-based Together AI, using Nvidia's B300 chips, it appeared to be just one of the many mega orders India's biggest engineering company has won recently. But it's more than another mega order.
The facility, with about 10,000 Nvidia GPUs, marks L&T's entry into an emerging layer of the AI economy that sits far beyond its traditional engineering, procurement and construction roots.
