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Place · Maharashtra

Mumbai

Holds about half of India’s operational data-centre stock on CBRE’s count; most international subsea cables land near Versova.

AI & Data Centers desk

In Vayam’s reporting

5 stories
A cracked white salt flat with rows of solar panels on blue frames in the foreground, a long low concrete industrial hall in the middle distance, and refinery towers and a small flare on the horizon under an overcast sky.
AI & Data Centers· Profile

Jamnagar: why Reliance is building India's AI backbone next to its refinery

A quarter of India's refining capacity sits in one Reliance fence. Now the same site is promised 120 MW of AI compute by December, on solar power that has not yet arrived.

Itihas··6 min
A high-voltage substation with lattice transmission towers in dusty grey haze, lines running to a long windowless concrete hall with rooftop cooling units and a row of generator enclosures, a thin blue light strip along its facade.
AI & Data Centers· Data brief

The grid before the plan: data centres are joining India's peak the costliest way

India's power demand set a record of 270.82 GW on 21 May. Data centres are a sliver of it today, are projected to grow 20-fold, and are being wired in as firm, doubled, peak-hour load.

Ganak··4 min
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
Aerial view of a dense Indian city at dusk with lit streets and a flyover, and at its far edge a long, low, windowless campus of halls glowing faintly blue on cleared land.
AI & Data Centers· Data brief

A fifth of the world's data, 2% of its data centres: checking India's favourite ratio

The ratio is in the Economic Survey and every industry deck. One half traces back to a sentence with no method. The other half depends on which denominator you pick.

Ganak··4 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