The Indian data center market is currently witnessing aggressive growth due to increased interest from both local and international enterprises and service providers. Data center operators are putting in place plans for the next phase of growth, which includes investing in Hyperscale data centers allowing for large, faster, and secured processing of data that is not stored on-premise. For example, Amazon Web Services is slated to invest USD 2.77 billion in Telangana to set up data centers. Yotta, a Hiranandani Group company, lays the foundation for a USD 1 billion data center park in Greater Noida. Also, Japanese technology firm NTT has acquired 6-acre land in Greater Noida to set up a data center with an investment of USD 150 million. Hence the future supply will be translated from 590 MW IT power currently to more than 1400 MW IT power in 2025 which can be sourced from distributes solar systems giving a boost to the solar sector in India.

Hence, Data centers, in their true sense, are essential services that keep the larger economy growing in the digital world. The data center industry presents an enormous opportunity for local as well as global players to deploy resources as India is set to become a major data hub within Asia pacific in the next decade. Initially, the tier 1 cities will witness the data center investment boom due to large IT and manufacturing infrastructure set up. Moreover, With the new data localization norms, India is moving towards creating hyper-scale data center facilities giving opportunities for the data center infrastructure providers to invest in the country. Additionally, the pandemic has proved to be the tipping point for the data center industry in India due to the large explosion of data with the need to store it in a secure place. Hence, with the right Government impetus, incentive, and support, the vision to make India a regional data hub is on track.