With a massive population that remains largely disconnected from the web , India is on the cusp of a veritable tsunami of data centre demand , as data consumption and cloud adoption grow with blinding speed .

Pretty soon , India could have more than a billion people online , consuming and creating content , using social media , and adopting cloud and business intelligence services . All that in a country with barely more than 400 MW of data centre capacity . The demand for digital infrastructure already far outstrips supply , and it ’ s only going to get bigger .

As a result , data centre operators are rushing to grow their capacity in India , with clusters of hyperscale facilities popping up across the country . AWS announced an investment of $ 2.8bn in November of 2020 to set up a data centre region . Google recently announced its second cluster in the country , located in the NCR . Iron Mountain is aggressively expanding throughout all of India ’ s major metros as part of a $ 150mn joint venture with Indian colocation firm Web Werks . Hold onto yourselves , folks , the Indian data centre boom is here .

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