HYD 1 at Kokapet is listed by Nxtra by Airtel at 10 MW of IT power across 2,500 racks — 4 kW a rack, PUE below 1.5, the tightest efficiency figure on any card this operator publishes. The building is not the interesting part. The code is. HYD 1 also means 40 MW under construction in a directory, 60 MW in phase one in a 2023 report, and a 200 MW campus on 40 acres at Chandanvelly in the chief executive’s own words — and Chandanvelly is not Kokapet. It is a different site, on the other side of the city, and no public document explains which building is which.
1At a glance
2Five capacities for one code
Hyderabad is the clearest case in this registry of a site code doing too much work.
| Source | Capacity | Location given |
|---|---|---|
| The operator’s Hyderabad page | 10 MW / 2,500 racks, PUE below 1.5 | Kokapet |
| A directory | 40 MW, listed as under construction | 100 Feet Industrial Road, 501503 |
| A 2021 expansion disclosure | 40 MW / 5,000 racks / 450,000 sq ft | Hyderabad, development |
| A January 2023 report | 60 MW in phase one, ₹2,000 crore | Hyderabad |
| The chief executive, November 2024 | 200 MW, ready in two years, full in five | 40 acres at Chandanvelly, allotted by the state |
| A facility directory | HYD1, named at Nakkalapalle | 501503 |
Line them up and the arithmetic of the confusion is visible. 10, 40, 60 and 200 are not four estimates of one thing — they are almost certainly one small building, one 2021 plan, one phase figure and one campus ambition, all sharing a postal code and a name.
The practical consequence is that a reader searching for Nxtra in Hyderabad gets a ten-megawatt answer, a two-hundred-megawatt answer and no way to tell which is built. That is not a small problem in a state that has signed memoranda for eleven gigawatts of data centre capacity.
A facility card is a statement about a building. A site code is a label somebody typed into a spreadsheet.
Where the two disagree by a factor of twenty, the card wins and the code gets an explanation. Here the code has none.
3Kokapet and Chandanvelly
The two Hyderabad locations in this record are not variations on a theme. They sit on opposite sides of a city of eleven million people.
| Item | Kokapet | Chandanvelly |
|---|---|---|
| Where | west Hyderabad, the financial district fringe | south-east, near Fab City and the airport corridor |
| What is there | Nxtra’s 10 MW listed building | 40.74 acres allotted by the state industrial corporation |
| Announced capacity | 10 MW | 200 MW, on the chief executive’s account in November 2024 |
| Neighbours | CapitaLand’s 40 MW hall, CtrlS, STT and Sify buildings within a few kilometres | CtrlS’s own large land holdings, Microsoft’s 52 acres, Amazon’s Fab City campus |
| What the state gave | not stated | land through the industrial infrastructure corporation |
Both can be true. An operator with a legacy building in the financial district and a two-hundred-megawatt ambition near Fab City is entirely ordinary. What is not ordinary is that the same site code appears against both, which is how a 10 MW building ends up carrying a 200 MW valuation in a third-party database.
Gridvik records 10 MW here, because it is the only figure the operator puts on a facility page. The Chandanvelly campus is a separate matter and will be recorded separately if and when a card or a filing supports it.
4What 10 MW needs from Telangana
At PUE 1.5, ten megawatts of IT load is 15 MW of facility load — the number the connection, the transformers and the cooling plant are built for. Two resource figures follow from it.
| Input | Arithmetic | Result |
|---|---|---|
| IT load | operator card | 10 MW |
| Facility load at PUE 1.5 | 10 × 1.5 | about 15 MW |
| Annual energy at 80% utilisation | 15 MW × 8,760 h × 0.8 | about 105 GWh a year |
| Water, using a 20 MLD per gigawatt benchmark | 20 MLD ÷ 1,000 MW × 10 MW | about 0.2 MLD, or 200,000 litres a day |
| Hyderabad’s projected water shortfall by 2027 | published estimate | more than 870 MLD |
The water line is the one worth understanding, because it is where the state’s arithmetic breaks. A published benchmark puts a one-gigawatt hyperscaler’s water use at about 20 MLD. Hyderabad is projected to run short by more than 870 MLD by 2027. That is the equivalent of a 43 GW data centre estate’s water demand arriving in a city that is already short — while Telangana has signed memoranda for 11 GW of data centre capacity.
Ten megawatts is a rounding error against that. The point of the comparison is that this building, at 0.2 MLD, is the kind that is easy to permit — and the kind of thing the state has 11 GW of. Water, not power, is the binding constraint on the Telangana pipeline, and nobody has published an allocation.
5Timeline
- A $673 million programme describes a Hyderabad development of 40 MW of IT power across 5,000 racks and 450,000 square feet
- Reports describe a ₹2,000 crore Hyderabad facility with 60 MW of IT load in phase one, to be built over five to seven years
- The chief executive says Hyderabad will be the company’s biggest data centre at 200 MW, on 40 acres at Chandanvelly, ready in two years and full in five
- The operator lists HYD 1 at Kokapet at 10 MW across 2,500 racks with PUE below 1.5
- No public document connects the Kokapet building to the Chandanvelly campus, or states which of the four capacities is built
6Procurement
7Limits and open questions
8Sources
Sources: Nxtra Hyderabad data centre page, Nxtra by Airtel site and footprint list, Data Center Dynamics Infra on the Nxtra expansion programme, Data Center Dynamics on the ₹2,000 crore Hyderabad plan, The Hindu BusinessLine interview with the Nxtra chief executive, DataCenterMap, DataCenterHawk, Baxtel Hyderabad listings, Frontline on water use in Indian data centres.