Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters has secured a landmark ₹7,000 crore investment from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) to accelerate development of next-generation hyperscale datacentre campuses across India. The strategic partnership, announced on June 17, 2026, marks CtrlS’s first institutional fundraise and validates India’s emergence as a critical node in the global AI infrastructure buildout. CPP Investments will deploy ₹4,000 crore (C$588 million) to acquire...

Meta Platforms has intensified its pursuit of artificial intelligence infrastructure by finalising new agreements with data centre developer Crusoe to secure approximately 1.6 gigawatts of computing capacity across two facilities in the United States. The move, confirmed through a Bloomberg report citing individuals familiar with the matter, positions the social media giant to expand the computational resources essential for training and deploying next-generation AI...

Schneider Electric and Foxconn have announced a strategic collaboration to help define and scale the next generation of AI data centers, combining Foxconn’s manufacturing and AI systems expertise with Schneider Electric’s power, cooling, and energy-management capabilities. The companies say the goal is to deliver integrated, ready-to-deploy infrastructure that can support AI rollouts with greater speed, efficiency, and predictability. The partnership comes as AI adoption continues...

By Pankaj Singh   |   Head – Data Center & Telecom Infra Segment, Delta Electronics India Google has broken ground on its gigawatt-scale AI hub in Visakhapatnam — its largest investment in India's digital future, part of a $15 billion commitment through 2030. Reliance has announced a 1 GW data center campus in Jamnagar. Google and Microsoft together have pledged over $32 billion to India's digital...

NTT Global Data Centers has published a comprehensive guide to India's regional data center expansion, emphasising that national growth demands regionally differentiated strategies rather than single-market deployments. India's infrastructure ecosystem evolves in parallel—power grids scale alongside hyperscale campuses, subsea cables expand with traffic surges, state policies mature concurrently with land development—creating portfolio opportunities across Mumbai (53% capacity), Chennai (21-23%), Delhi NCR (15-20%), Bengaluru, and...

TakeMe2Space, the Hyderabad-based space startup that successfully demonstrated orbital AI computing with India's PSLV mission, has set its sights on a groundbreaking 50-kilowatt orbital data center as the foundational building block for gigawatt-scale space infrastructure. After securing a $5 million seed round in January, founder Ronak Kumar Samantray revealed to SpaceNews the company now seeks $55 million in Series A funding to prove global...

India's data center market stands poised for explosive growth, surging from USD 10.8 billion in 2026 to USD 36.6 billion by 2035 at a 14.5% CAGR, driven by aggressive data localization mandates, hyperscale AI expansion, and government incentives accelerating cloud sovereignty. Dimension Market Research projects cloud providers capturing 50% deployment share, hyperscalers dominating 45% capacity, and Tier 3 facilities leading with 56% market preference...

India’s IT services sector is no longer just writing the software layer of the digital economy; it is beginning to build the physical AI infrastructure underneath it. That shift is visible in the latest earnings commentary from TCS and HCLTech, and it comes at a time when India’s data centre market is set to move from about $10 billion in 2025 to $22 billion...

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...