India has potential for 5X data centre capacity expansion to fuel digital transformation: Report Moneycontrol.com
India has a potential for five times data centre capacity expansion to fuel digital transformation and the country requires an additional 1.7-3.6 GW (gigawatt) data centre capacity over and above the planned development of 2.32 GW (colocation) capacity, taking the potential of possible data centre capacity to over 5 GW, according to a report by Cushman and Wakefield. According to the data, India’s colocation data centre capacity stood at 977 MW across the top seven cities. Out of this, around 258 MW was built in 2023 witnessing a 105 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth over the installed capacity in 2022.
