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Chennai

India’s second subsea-cable gateway and its second-largest data-centre cluster.

AI & Data Centers desk

In Vayam’s reporting

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A sandy beach under a grey monsoon sky with a concrete channel and a row of short concrete markers running from the waterline to a small windowless concrete building behind a wall; wooden fishing boats rest on the sand and a blue marker post stands at the water's edge.
AI & Data Centers· Explainer

Why India's data centres live by the sea

Thirteen of India's eighteen international cables come ashore on one six-kilometre stretch of Mumbai. The compute followed the cables, and the next landings are on the east coast.

Yatri··6 min
A roadside tea stall at dusk with glasses of chai and a steel kettle on a wooden counter, a blank cobalt-framed payment stand in the foreground, and a large windowless grey concrete building with rooftop cooling units across a busy highway.
AI & Data Centers· Explainer

Your ₹20 UPI payment is not allowed to leave India. That rule built buildings

Since April 2018 the RBI has required every payment record to be stored only in India. Follow one chai-stall QR scan and you find the anchor tenant of India's data-centre industry.

Sutradhar··7 min
A blue water tanker parked on a dusty road beside half-finished apartment blocks with rooftop water tanks; across a dry field stands a large windowless grey data centre with cooling units on its roof.
AI & Data Centers· Analysis

The building that drinks: India's data centres and the water nobody meters

India put its data centres in its thirstiest cities. After a 76% monsoon in the south, the industry's water bill is still a guess, and only one state has asked to see it.

Yatri··8 min