STT Global Data Centres India has announced plans to build a data center campus in Meerkhanpet, near Hyderabad in India.
The company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian government in STT GDC’s Singapore office for the up to 100MW campus in the state of Telangana.
The project will see an investment of Rs 3,500 crore ($404m).
Specifications of the campus have not been shared.
Telangana’s Chief Minister Anumula Revanth Reddy is currently on a visit to Singapore to invite investment into the state.
He said: “The proposed state-of-the-art AI-ready data center campus will feature cutting-edge technologies with [a] targeted capacity of up to 100MW, along with ample scalability for future growth, making it one of the largest data center projects in the country.”
Bruno Lopez, president and group CEO at STT GDC, added: “This collaboration demonstrates our common goal of promoting economic expansion, generating employment, and constructing a sustainable digital future.”
STT GDC’s India unit is majority-owned by STT GDC. Tata Communications holds a minority stake in the company. STT GDC India currently manages more than 318 MW of critical IT load spread across 28 facilities, including facilities under development, across 10 cities in India.
STT GDC already operates a data center in HITEC City in Hyderabad, as part of its recently announced $3.2 billion investment plan to expand its Indian data center operations. The operator said it will add 550MW of capacity to its current offering over the next five to six years, nearly tripling the company’s IT capacity.
Most recently, the company signed a MoU with the government of Uttar Pradesh for an AI city project.
Hyderabad has become a recent hotspot for data centers, with the likes of Iron Mountain, CtrlS, 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 Hyderabad last year.
A recent report from JLL said the Indian data center industry is set to grow by 66 percent by 2026, adding 604MW of capacity.
