CtrlS Datacenters has announced plans to develop a data center campus in the Chandanvelly Industrial Park near Hyderabad, India.
Located in the state of Telangana, the operator is planning a 40-acre campus with a potential IT capacity of more than 600MW.
Details of the investment have not been shared.
However, the company did say it has already secured 250MW of sanctioned power capacity for the first phase of the development and is planning to have a dedicated Gas Insulated Substation (GIS), expandable to 900MW.
CtrlS’ Chandanvelly Industrial Park is set to feature multiple high-density, interconnected data centers. The buildings will feature solar module facades and utilize free air-cooling, direct liquid cooling, and immersion cooling technologies.
“Given the government's strong support for the ICT sector and accelerating digital transformation, CtrlS Datacenters is proud to contribute to Hyderabad's digital ecosystem through this state-of-the-art facility. We are grateful to the Telangana government for their support and for fostering an environment conducive to establishing our data center park,” said Sridhar Pinnapureddy, chairman of CtrlS Datacenters.
The Indian operator already has three data centers in Hyderabad - DC1, DC2, and DC3. DC1 offers a capacity of 4MW across 1,152 racks, DC2 7.4MW across 720 racks, and DC3, which launched in May last year, offers 13MW across 130,000 sq ft (12,000 sqm).
At the end of 2023, the company announced plans to invest $2 billion over the next six years, expanding across Asia and the Middle East. In addition to Hyderabad, CtrlS operates facilities in Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida, and Kolkata, with Edge locations in Lucknow and Patna.
CtrlS is also developing a data center campus in Chennai, which will see an investment of around $482.5 million.
To date, the company has more than 250MW of IT capacity and is also planning a 150MW campus in Thailand.
At the end of last year, CtrlS announced plans to operationalize a 50MW solar installation within 12 to 15 months as part of its plan to transition all sites to solar energy generation.
Hyderabad has become a recent hotspot for data centers, with the likes of Iron Mountain, AdaniConneX, Nxtra, Microsoft, and Tata Communications all having a presence. AWS also operates a cloud region from Hyderabad and announced plans to expand its data center facilities in the city last year.
This week, STT GDC announced plans to build a $404 million data center campus in Hyderabad.
A recent report from JLL said the Indian data center industry is set to grow by 66 percent by 2026, adding 604MW of capacity. The report identified Hyderabad as a key market, alongside Mumbai and Bangalore.
