Sify Technologies
Opened India’s first commercial data centre at Vashi, Navi Mumbai, in September 2000.
In Vayam’s reporting
Online before China? The 1995 boast, and the state decisions behind India's data centres
VSNL's Independence Day internet was not first in Asia. What it began was a chain of state choices, from STPI's earth stations to RBI's data rule, that private capital has filled ever since.
The 2047 tax holiday, read carefully: the concrete must be Indian, but only on paper
India will not tax foreign cloud firms' global income from Indian data centres until 2047. An August amendment lowered the gates further. What the bargain asks for in return is thinner than it sounds.
Visakhapatnam, the AI coast: who gave up the land under India's biggest compute bet
Subsea cables, cheap construction and a state in a hurry have made coastal Andhra the centre of India's AI build-out. The fields below Star Hill are where its costs are being argued.
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.
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.