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Amazon to invest $13 bn in Australia's data center infra over five years

The investment is Amazon's largest global technology commitment in Australia, with funding directed toward new server capacity and support for generative AI workloads

Amazon to spend $20 billion on two data center complexes in Pennsylvania

Amazon said on Monday that it will spend USD 20 billion on two data centre complexes in Pennsylvania, including one it is building alongside a nuclear power plant that has drawn federal scrutiny over an arrangement to essentially plug right into the power plant. Kevin Miller, vice-president of global data centres at Amazon's cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, told The Associated Press that the company will build another data centre complex just north of Philadelphia. One data centre is being built next to northeastern Pennsylvania's Susquehanna nuclear power plant, where it intends to get its power. The other will be in Fairless Hills at a logistics campus, the Keystone Trade Centre, on what was once a US Steel mill. Amazon said that data centre will get its power through the electricity grid. At a news conference in Berwick in the shadow of the power plant, Governor Josh Shapiro called it the largest private sector investment in Pennsylvania's history. Monday's ...

CtrlS Datacenters partners with BSE to power digital infrastructure

CtrlS Datacenters operates 15 data centres across eight key markets and plans to expand into new overseas markets in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, with Thailand as its first international foray

Mumbai is 6th globally in under-construction data centre capacity: Report

Ranking 7th most established data centre market in APAC, Mumbai accounts for 42 per cent of India's projected under-construction capacity

India's data centre sector may attract $20-25 bn in next 6 years: Colliers

India's data centre industry has seen investments of nearly USD 15 billion since 2020 and is likely to attract USD 20-25 billion fund over the next six years, on rising demand, according to Colliers. In its latest report, real estate consultant Colliers India mentioned that India's data centre capacity stands at 1,263 MW as of April 2025 across seven major cities, and the capacity is likely to cross 4,500 MW by 2030. The existing data centre real estate footprint stands at 15.9 million sq ft, and this is expected to rise significantly, reaching about 55 million sq ft by 2030. The scale-up in the Indian DC industry has been accompanied by equally impressive investments in the last 5-6 years. The industry has already seen investments to the tune of USD 14.7 billion since the beginning of 2020. These investments have been largely focused on land acquisition, project construction and development, etc," the consultant said. "In the next 5-6 years, amidst massive adoption of cloud ...

Capacit'e eyes Middle East market after Maldives foray, cites growth

Data centres and hospitals are key growth drivers for EPC firm Capacit'e Infraprojects as it enters global markets after its first international project in Maldives

US seeks greater India market access for its data centre companies

May negotiate favourable conditions under BTA

Can India keep up with AI's soaring demand for infra, GPUs, and talent?

Despite generating 20% of global data, India accounts for just 3% of the world's data centre capacity currently

AI boom drives global data centre growth despite soaring costs: Moody's

Global data centre expansion accelerates to meet AI and cloud demands; challenges include rising energy needs, supply chain disruptions, and power infrastructure constraints

Princeton Digital seals Rs 125 cr annual lease deal in Navi Mumbai's Airoli

With a total starting monthly rent of ₹10.42 crore, the first-year rent alone amounts to ₹125.04 crore, excluding other costs such as maintenance and parking.

Chhattisgarh CM lays foundation of India's first AI-based data park

The 5.5-hectare data park in Nava Raipur will support AI services including healthtech and fintech, with the first phase offering 5 MW capacity and future expansion planned

CtrlS Datacenters to invest Rs 500 cr in setting up data centre in Bhopal

The company announced this milestone in a groundbreaking ceremony of its greenfield data centre. The ceremonial event took place during the Tech Growth Conclave 2025 on April 27 in Indore

IT ministry in talks with Power min to address data centre energy needs

Ministry of Electronics and IT is in discussion with the power ministry to address issues related to energy requirement of data centres, a senior government official said on Saturday. Speaking at Global Technology Summit, IT Secretary S Krishnan said that even before the development around artificial intelligence, there has been a lot of pressure to add data centres for cloud computing etc and at the same time there was was a lot of resistance to setting up more because they guzzle a lot of power and they don't provide much employment. "I think if you have to take advantage of the technology, it (setting up of data centres) is something which needs to be done now. Which means we have to figure out ways of doing it. There are solutions, technological solutions which can be worked out. And my ministry is in consultation with the Ministry of Power and other ministries to try and address this issue," Krishnan said. He said that India has an advantage in terms of having a lot of green ..

Rajasthan data centre policy to attract Rs 20k cr investment in 5 years: CM

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma on Saturday said that Rajasthan Data Centre Policy 2025 will bring an investment of about Rs 20,000 crore to the state in the next five years. He said that the policy aims to encourage the establishment of data centres in the private sector in Rajasthan. This policy was announced in the state budget 2024-25, he added. In a statement, he said that the goal of Rajasthan Data Centre Policy-2025 is to make Rajasthan a major hub of the data centre sector by developing a world-class data centre ecosystem in the state. This policy will help in setting guidelines to ensure high standards of data management, performance and security in the state. Under this policy, many provisions have been made to encourage the data center sector, which include annual asset creation incentive of Rs 10-20 crore for 10 years, 25 per cent additional sunrise incentive to the first 3 data centers investing more than Rs 100 crore, 5 per cent interest subsidy for 5 years,

India's data centre industry now worth $10 bn, shows explosive growth

Indian data centre industry has attracted more than $6.5 billion in investments over the past decade from private equity, joint ventures, and acquisitions: Anarock Capital report

India's data centre market drew over $6.5 bn investment in 10 yrs: Report

Experts believe that artificial intelligence (AI) and the rise of sustainable and edge DCs will drive the next wave of demand in the sector

PFCCL incorporates two special purpose vehicles for transmission systems

Two special purpose vehicles (SPVs) have been incorporated under PFC Consulting Limited (PFCCL) for the development of transmission systems, a BSE filing said on Friday. NES Dharashiv Transmission has been incorporated for the transmission scheme for the development of a network expansion scheme in Maharashtra for evacuation of RE Power from Dharashiv, Beed district, Power Finance Corporation (PFC) said in the filing. NES NAVI Mumbai Transmission is for the transmission scheme of network expansion scheme in Maharashtra for providing supply to Data Centre Loads in Navi Mumbai. PFC Consulting Limited (PFCCL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PFC. Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL) has placed a Letter of Intent (LoI) dated January 17, 2025, appointing PFCCL as bid process coordinator (BPC) for the purpose of selection of transmission service providers (TSP) to establish the two transmission systems through a tariff-based competitive bidding process. Th

L&T targets 150 MW data centre capacity by 2027, to utilise land banks

At present, L&T has two operational data centres-Mumbai and Chennai-with a combined capacity of 32 MW

India's data centre capacity to grow to 2,000-2,100 MW by March 2027: ICRA

India's data centre (DC) operational capacity is expected to increase to 2,000-2,100 MW by March 2027 from around 1,150 MW as of December 2024, on the back of data usage and data localisation initiatives, according to rating agency Icra. Indian data centre players are projected to invest Rs 2-2.3 lakh crore, with a development pipeline of 3-3.5 GW to be delivered over the next 7-10 years. "Driven by AI requirements, the global DC market has already witnessed multiple large deals (>300 MW) signed by hyperscalers and India is expected to follow the trend. This, coupled with favourable regulatory policies and an infrastructure status for the DC sector will support strong growth prospects in India in the coming decade," Anupama Reddy, Vice President and Co-Group Head, Corporate Ratings, Icra said. While cloud, 5G rollout, machine learning and internet of things (IoT) are expected to generate enormous data and storage requirements, GenAI-led high computing requirements present a new .

Uttar Pradesh eyes Rs 70K cr investment in electronics, data centres

The investments will catalyse the 'Make in UP' and 'Brand UP' vision, a senior state government official said