India has emerged as the top data centre market in the Asia-Pacific region outside China, with live IT capacity quadrupling to 1.7 GW in six years. BloombergNEF expects electricity demand from data centres to rise eightfold by 2035.
India’s data centre development pipeline has reached 8.33 GW, more than five times the current operational capacity, according to Knight Frank India. Strong demand from AI, cloud services and data localisation is driving growth, with Mumbai and Hyderabad leading future expansion
