New Delhi, 19 September (IANS). Mumbai has emerged as India’s data center capital, whose share has reached 40 percent in the country’s total capacity and 44 percent in the current IT capacity. This information was given in a report released on Friday.
According to a report by real estate service firm Night Frank, in the first half of 2025, Mumbai’s data center increased by 14.3 percent to cross 4 GW of figure, with 591 MW, 185 MW under construction and 3.2 ggawatt pipelines.
The report stated that the growth is based on the data center market in India, which crossed 10 GW in the second half of 2024, including a 1.4 gigawatt live and 400 MW of construction capacity.
Three existing sites in Mumbai can support hypersscale deployment with a capacity of greater than 2.5 MW and provide only one more than 10 MW capacity.
The fragmented market of small features with 1-2 MW capacity has encouraged global companies and joint enterprises to plan high-capacity complexes, such as NTT’s 500 MW capacity NAV2 project and 500 MW AI features of 500 MW of Blackstone-Panchashel Realty.
The report said Hyderabad is India’s second largest data-center market with a 2.1 GW capacity and is preparing itself for hypersscale development with a new capacity of more than 500 MW through two major projects.
Shishir Baijal, president and managing director of Knight Frank India, said, “The capacity of more than 3 gigawatts is in the pipeline and with strong policy support for green data center parks, Mumbai is constantly attracting global investment.”
The report stated that Mumbai has firmly established itself as the center of India’s digital infrastructure development. Although other metros such as Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore are moving fast, no one can equal Mumbai scale, speed and cloud, AI and the ability to serve as the entrance to South Asia for enterprise workloads.
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