India harbours genuine potential to emerge as a premier global data hub by 2030, propelled by explosive demand for AI, cloud services, and localised compute amid its digital economy's trillion-dollar trajectory. Current colocation capacity stands at 1.7 GW, poised for fivefold expansion to 8 GW by decade's end, attracting $30 billion in capex and elevating leasing revenues to $8 billion annually.  Hyperscalers like AWS, Microsoft,...

India's digital economy powers 15 billion UPI transactions each month, fuelling AI-driven innovation across banking, manufacturing, and retail sectors. However, this rapid expansion faces escalating threats—cyber incidents doubled from 10.29 lakh in 2022 to 22.68 lakh in 2024, while physical disruptions like Chennai floods and Mumbai power outages exposed critical vulnerabilities.  Traditional disaster recovery approaches, reliant on periodic backups and hours-long recovery times, simply cannot...

India's data centre landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, with Tier-2 cities like Hyderabad, Pune, and Jaipur surging ahead as the new epicenters of digital infrastructure. Driven by explosive demand for AI workloads, edge computing, and data sovereignty, these hubs are projected to capture over 20 percent of national capacity by 2030, growing at a staggering 70 percent compound annual rate. Far from peripheral...

India stands at a critical juncture in its digital transformation. The nation grapples with acute water stress—home to 18 percent of the world's population but only 4 percent of its water resources—while data centres underpinning AI, cloud computing, and edge services consume 150 billion litres annually. Projections forecast this doubling to 358 billion litres by 2030, coinciding with a 77 percent capacity surge to...