Adani Group plans to build 1,000-MW data centres in 10 years

Highlights Adani Group firm AdaniConneX is planning to build 1,000 megawatt data centres First seven data centres will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru and Pune India's data centre market size stood at 447 MW in 2021, valued at USD 10.9 billion Adani Group firm AdaniConneX is planning to build 1,000 megawatt data centres -- almost double the present size of the total industry -- over a period of 10 years, a senior company official said. AdaniConneX Senior Vice President and Head of Data Centre Business, Sanjay Bhutani said the first seven data centres of the company will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru and Pune. Building 1,000 megawatt data centre in the next one decade is something which is our business plan," Bhutani said while speaking at 9.9 Group's CIO and Leader Conference on Saturday. The government has granted digital infrastructure status to data centres and seven states have already come up with a data centre policy, which Bhutani said is helping the company to be more efficient and agile.