India Data-Centre Capacity in 2026: Why Five Published Figures Differ
MeitY’s ~1,575 MW, CBRE’s reported 1.75 GW H1 stock and 2 GW year-end outlook, C&W’s 1,789 MW, and Gridvik’s 778.69 MW count are not one reconciled total.
Read the article →Explore Gridvik’s source-led guides to India’s data-centre market, investment plans, business models, capacity, power and state policy. These guides distinguish published commitments, policy targets, projects under construction and operational capacity. Figures are attributed to their sources and should be checked before use.
MeitY’s ~1,575 MW, CBRE’s reported 1.75 GW H1 stock and 2 GW year-end outlook, C&W’s 1,789 MW, and Gridvik’s 778.69 MW count are not one reconciled total.
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CBRE reports US$38bn in H1 2026 data-centre commitments. C&W estimates 3,860 MW of supply through 2030, with most still planned—not under construction.
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L&T says Vyoma’s existing Chennai facility is operational at 30 MW; a separate 52 MW AI-ready centre broke ground on 28 October 2026 and is not yet operational.
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OneQode signed an agreement for 14 MW of data-centre capacity in Chennai. Its separate India-wide 114 MW opportunity and US$6bn GPUaaS TCV projection remain potential, not contracted delivery.
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UP’s 2026 policy offers 50% land support in Bundelkhand and Purvanchal—but only on State Agency land and after commercialisation. Noida is in the 25% band.
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Tata Communications has announced a US$400–450 million, roughly 10,000-km AI-ready fibre plan. Here is what is known about its phases, first corridor, later geographies, global-backbone integration and timeline—and what remains unannounced.
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A source-based review of the 20-million-litres-a-day water claim at RBI’s new Odisha data centre: what official records confirm, what Odisha Congress alleges and what water details were not found in public sources reviewed to 1 November 2026.
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A source-led map of potential value pools across operators, cloud, construction, power, connectivity and services—without treating announcements as guaranteed profit.
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Compare seven routes into the market, including ownership, cloud, construction, equipment, software, connectivity and research—with buyer, capital and risk considerations.
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A selected public-source ledger separating corporate commitments, campus plans, financing, acquisitions and policy targets—while flagging overlap and unknowns.
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A broad guide to capacity definitions, forecasts, city clusters, AI and cloud drivers, infrastructure layers and the execution constraints behind India’s expansion.
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A practical guide to grid readiness, procurement routes, state policy and vendor timing—correcting the unsupported idea that every project buys exactly two quarters before go-live.
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A practical reading of Karnataka’s new policy: the statewide 1 GW IT-load target, reported sustainability incentives, resource mapping and the checks operators should make before treating a benefit as bankable.
Read the guide →A fact-checked reading of CoreWeave’s India entry plan: the 3 × 80 MW Taloja campus, its mid-2028 first-phase target, planned cooling and hardware, and the key details the announcement does not disclose.
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What a preliminary operator survey does—and does not—say about connectivity, plus a practical framework for testing fibre-route diversity, interconnection, latency and resilience at an Indian data-centre site.
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A source-led live-status audit separating operational, under-development and announced capacity for three Singapore-linked platforms in India.
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Same headline scale, different milestones — comparing a proposed gigawatt hub with secured land and a live-region-adjacent campus.
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Testing whether project phases sit inside wider capacity totals without calling an unverified overlap a proven duplicate.
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A source-led check of Singapore’s provisional award and Jurong’s potential — capacity is not proof of capital diverted.
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Separating SHLCC approval, KIADB possession and power milestones for the 855-acre proposal.
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Why investment commitments and operational capacity must be tracked on separate ledgers.
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Disentangling forecast, pipeline and live capacity — what the 7GW really measures.
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A practical checklist to audit any 1GW announcement with evidence at each milestone.
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550 ÷ 50 = 11 is arithmetic, not a capital shift — auditing the India plan vs Singapore selection.
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Are three Singapore-linked platforms actually racing in India? A capacity-basis and ownership audit.
Read the guide →A dated audit of GIC and Temasek’s India data-centre links — the public record does not verify an investor-attributable 1GW.
Read the guide →A US hyperscaler’s Andhra Pradesh bet and what it signals for Singapore-linked capital and subsea corridors.
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