India Data Centres

Exhibits from the India Data Centre Review 2026

• Chapter 1India sits at 28% CAGR on about 1,500 MW of operational capacity
• Chapter 1Five demand drivers take capacity from 1,508 MW to 3,408 MW by 2030
• Chapter 2Mumbai's share falls from 52% to 46% as Chennai and Hyderabad gain
• Chapter 2No Indian city leads on all eight site-selection metrics
• Chapter 2Power tariffs vary 2x across data-centre cities, Kolkata to Mumbai
• Chapter 31,520 MW is operational across more than 39 operators
• Chapter 3Five hyperscalers have committed $67.5B to Indian partners
• Chapter 340 to 50% of new capacity goes colocation, the rest captive or JV
• Chapter 4Foreign capital is 86% of everything deployed since 2020
• Chapter 4India builds at $5–6M per MW against $12–18M in the US and Europe
• Chapter 4Building a megawatt costs INR 40–55 Cr, and electrical is the largest block
• Chapter 5Operational capacity and grid-planning load are different measures
• Chapter 5Grid connection runs 12 to 36 months depending on the city
• Chapter 5State HT industrial tariffs run INR 5.0 to 8.5 per kWh
• Chapter 5A 38 GW interstate gap and a 240 GVA transformer gap take 3 to 5 years to close
• Chapter 6Gas backup cuts CO2 82% and sulphur oxides 99% against diesel
• Chapter 7Six states hold 80%+ of renewable potential; three align with DC clusters
• Chapter 8Water use per MW varies 10x with cooling technology and climate
• Chapter 9Round-trip latency runs 2ms from Mumbai to 250ms to US East
• Chapter 9Cloud on-ramp access varies 5x; Mumbai has 4 of 4, Kolkata none
• Chapter 10Central data-centre policy has moved through three phases since 2000
• Chapter 11IndiaAI reaches 58,000 GPUs; private hyperscalers hold 76,000+
• Chapter 11Demand reaches 6,150 MW by 2030, about twice the 2024 base
• Chapter 12India's electricity is the cheapest of eight global markets at 6.71¢/kWh
• Chapter 12Singapore's moratorium redirects 1,000–1,500 MW toward India
• Chapter 13The national grid emission factor is 0.757 tCO2 per MWh
• Chapter 1360 to 80% of Indian data centres sit in water-stressed regions
• Chapter 14Data-centre load reaches 57 TWh, about 3% of the national grid, by 2030