Data centers in India

About India

India has the third-largest number of listed data centers among the 152 countries in the directory: 374 facilities run by 57 operators in 91 towns and cities. Mumbai has the most with 51, followed by Chennai with 31, Bengaluru with 27 and Hyderabad with 23. The directory covers five Indian markets, led by Mumbai with 68 facilities, Delhi NCR with 41 and Chennai with 37, ahead of Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Nxtra has by far the most listings, 88, followed by STT GDC with 34, CtrlS with 24 and NTT Global Data Centers with 20. Colocation sites account for 235 of the records.

Capacity is published mainly as IT load, for 64 buildings. The largest is the CtrlS Chennai Datacenter Park at 72 MW; the planned Colt DCS Chennai is also listed at 72 MW, and STT GDC's planned Palava 4 and Palava 5 in Mumbai at 60.5 MW each. Only 1 building publishes a utility supply: Digital Realty MAA10 in Chennai at 20.4 MW. By floor area, the CtrlS Chennai Datacenter Park is the largest listed building, at 1,000,000 square feet, ahead of AirTrunk BOM3 in Mumbai.

49 facilities hold an Uptime Institute certification, 10 of them at Tier IV, including Yotta NM1 in Navi Mumbai and the Reserve Bank of India Data Centre in Bhubaneswar. 16 facilities are under construction and 19 planned, among them CtrlS sites in Bhopal, Kochi and Bhubaneswar and EdgeConneX sites in Hyderabad and Kolkata.