Data Centre

OPINION | India’s data centre boom faces rising environmental, regulatory challenges

India’s data centre expansion is accelerating with strong investment. However, high water and energy use and weak transparency risk undermining sustainability and long term resource security

PDG acquires 210 MW in India, doubles down on hyperscaler demand with $1-bn-plus push

The deal nearly doubles PDG’s planned capacity in India and forms part of a broader investment commitment of about $2.5 billion in the country so far.

India may corner more of global data centre market amid Gulf crisis

Recent attacks on data centres in the Gulf by Iran, which regards them as legitimate wartime targets due to their technical and data support for some American defence suppliers, have damaged the region's data centre ambitions

Hindustan Copper says on track to have more than 12 MTPA production by 2031

Despite its status as the only pure-play copper miner in India, state-owned Hindustan Copper remains a small-scale supplier, with India's copper consumption growing every year due to increased demand from electric vehicles, renewable energy, data centres, and infrastructure

Govt considering sustainable data centre policy: Karnataka IT Minister Priyank Kharge

The Minister said the government's focus is shifting beyong Bengaluru, to coastal areas like Mangaluru.

India can emerge as key APAC data centre hub, must leverage renewables: Deloitte

While India accounts for nearly 20 percent of global data consumption, it hosts less than 5 per cent of the world's data centres

India needs 20% global data centre capacity with increasing data needs, says RMZ

RMZ, though multiple public private partnerships with state governments such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka, is deploying around Rs 2.8 lakh crore towards the development of data centres in these states, over the next decade

Oracle optimistic about India-US trade deal, to launch 3 multi-cloud data centres by April: India head Shailender Kumar

Oracle is set to offer its multi-cloud services with three new data centres in India by April, two with AWS and one Google Cloud, Kumar told Moneycontrol in an interview.

Oracle India’s multi-cloud push: Launched services with Azure, Google Cloud data centres in 2025; more in pipeline

“We are seeing a hockey stick growth. In the last two years, cloud business has doubled and the momentum continues in India…we are going to launch more data centres in this calendar year,” said Kapil Makhija, VP, Technology Cloud, Oracle India.

OPINION | Juice, Not Just Water: Why power, not water, is the true bottleneck for Indian data centres

Learning from the mistakes of the US’ approach, there are three ways in which India can sidestep the most important constraint when a rapid scale up of data centres starts

Budget's Data Centre push wins applause, but sparks level-playing-field concerns

Industry leaders believe this move is India’s play to outcompete established hubs like Singapore, Ireland, and the Middle East for global cloud infrastructure investment.

The beneficiaries of India’s Budget push to support data centres

Long-term tax certainty strengthens India’s data centre investment case leading to better opportunities for hyperscalers, cloud service providers and equipment suppliers

Data Centre tax holiday to benefit Indian players, GPU infra big way: Yotta CEO Gupta

Additionally, Gupta also pointed out that the use case of foreign cloud providers serving global demand from India shall increase significantly.

Data centre industry hails tax holiday, flags mineral, infra concerns

Data centres require a range of critical minerals for various parts, such as semiconductors, server boards and circuitry, heat sinks and the data storage facility, which uses magnets

Budget 2026: Developers see major data centre push as FM Sitharaman announces data centre tax holiday

Data centres, which require large quantums of investments, land, electricity, and water supply, have become critical to enterprises and hyperscalers due to significant computing needs in the wake of emergence of artificial intelligence tools, and pressure from governments for sovereignty of data

Foreign cloud providers using local data centres to get tax holiday till 2047, FM announces in Budget

To qualify, such companies must route services for Indian customers through an Indian reseller entity, ensuring that India not only becomes a global hub for cloud infrastructure.

L&T digital infra arm breaks ground on 40 MW Navi Mumbai data centre

Industry sources said that L&T is investing around Rs 10,000 crore towards the group's data centre business

CG Power enters data centre segment, wins Rs 900-cr order from Tallgrass for power transformers

The engineering conglomerate said the data centre project is the 'largest single order' ever won by the group and a direct export order for its power transformers

Budget 2026 may include clarifications on taxation of data centres and remote employees working in India

CBDT may expand 'permanent establishment' definition for big tech & data centers, which could increase tax liability for foreign enterprises.

Budget 2026: Data centres bat for green energy, funding boost as AI reshapes industry

Amid the AI driven data centre demand, power and electrical infrastructure have emerged as the largest capex block at around 35 to 45 percent of the costs

Real estate private equity inflows return to pre-pandemic levels, led by land and data centres

Data showed that in 2019, institutional investments in real estate sector were at $6.7 billion while in 2020 it was $6.6 billion. In 2021, private equity inflows came down to $3.4 billion but rose to $4.3 billion in 2024. In 2025, these investments in real estate sector rebounded to pre-pandemic levels of $6.7 billion.