NCR 3 at IMT Manesar is listed by Nxtra by Airtel at 12.5 MW of IT power across 2,300 racks — 5.4 kW a rack — inside a building of 1,094,985 square feet put up in 2014. It is the second largest of the operator’s four Delhi NCR buildings and the densest, and it is the card this registry could not find when it wrote up the Noida pages: the missing third NCR site is not in Noida at all, it is thirty kilometres west in Haryana. The operator markets it for disaster recovery and business continuity, not for AI — which is the honest description of what a five-kilowatt cabinet is for.
1At a glance
2The card that was missing
When this registry recorded the operator’s three Noida buildings, it noted a gap: the cards were numbered 1, 2 and 4, and a directory carried a fourth Noida building at 5,000 racks that the operator did not list. The third NCR facility was not missing. It was in Haryana.
| Building | Location | MW | Racks | kW a rack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCR 4 | Noida, hyperscale | 18 | 3,000 | 6.0 |
| NCR 3 — this building | IMT Manesar | 12.5 | 2,300 | 5.4 |
| NCR 1 | Noida Sector 62 | 4.5 | 1,250 | 3.6 |
| NCR 2 | Noida Sector 81 | 3.5 | 1,500 | 2.3 |
| Total | four cards | 38.5 | 8,050 | 4.8 |
The cluster arithmetic changes with this record. Delhi NCR was counted at 26 MW across 5,750 racks on the three Noida cards. It is 38.5 MW across 8,050 racks with Manesar, and its average density rises from 4.5 to 4.8 kW because this is the denser of the two older buildings.
That correction is worth stating plainly. Any figure that counted the operator’s NCR capacity from its Noida page alone was understating it by a third, and no directory made that obvious — several list Manesar as a separate “Manesar” site with no cluster relationship at all.
The Noida page lists three buildings. The Manesar page is a separate page. Nothing on either page totals the cluster.
Facility-level records added together are the only way to get a cluster number, and the operator does not do it for you.
32014 against 2023
The most useful comparison in Manesar is with the building six hundred metres away. Anant Raj Cloud commissioned its first data centre at IMT Manesar in 2023, with 21 MW of IT load across 450,000 square feet. Nxtra’s building has 12.5 MW across 1,094,985 square feet.
| Measure | Nxtra NCR 3 | Anant Raj Manesar | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT power | 12.5 MW | 21 MW | 1.7× |
| Floor area | 1,094,985 sq ft | 450,000 sq ft | 0.4× |
| Power per square foot | 11.4 W | 46.7 W | 4.1× |
| Year built | 2014 | 2023 | nine years |
| PUE published | no | not stated in the same terms | — |
| Distance apart | 0.63 km | — | — |
Four times the power per square foot, nine years apart, on the same industrial estate. That is what a decade of rack density does to a building, and it explains why the operator’s own marketing for Manesar talks about disaster recovery for banks and public sector workloads rather than AI.
For a landlord or a lender, the ratio is the warning. A large shell built to 2014 power density cannot be converted to 2026 density by adding servers — the cooling distribution, the floor loading and the electrical topology all become the constraint. The building is not obsolete; it is permanently priced as a secondary site.
Anant Raj has since announced a much larger Haryana programme with figures that do not agree across reports — the figures in circulation include a ₹25,000 crore state memorandum covering 357 MW, and a ₹20,000 crore Manesar park on 21 acres reported in October 2026. Gridvik records both and reconciles neither, because no document ties the two amounts to the same scope.
4What the directories say
| Source | What it says |
|---|---|
| The operator’s card | 12.5 MW of IT power, 2,300 racks, carrier neutral |
| A directory record for the same address | 8.50 MW of power capacity |
| A second directory | 4,000 kW total power, maximum 4 kW a rack, 435,615 sq ft, 2N redundancy |
| A third directory | capable of housing 1,800 racks, 1,094,985 sq ft, year built 2014 |
| A fourth | 12.5 MW, 2,300 racks, 1,094,985 sq ft, air cooling with liquid cooling readiness, LEED and IGBC |
The spread runs from 4 MW to 12.5 MW at one address — a factor of three — and two different floor areas differ by 2.5 times. Some of this is definitional: a total power figure may or may not include cooling and losses, and a maximum rack figure may be a marketed product rather than an installed capability.
The one number that survives across all sources is the 2,300-rack count, and it is the number that matters commercially. Racks are what customers rent. Gridvik uses the operator’s card and records the spread.
5Timeline
- The Manesar building is completed as a purpose-built carrier-neutral data centre of 1,094,985 square feet
- Anant Raj Cloud commissions a 21 MW, 450,000 square foot facility in the same industrial estate
- The operator lists NCR 3 at 12.5 MW across 2,300 racks, with no PUE and no commissioning date stated
- Press reports describe a ₹20,000 crore data centre park in Manesar on 21 acres, tied to a 357 MW Haryana memorandum
- No current load, occupancy or tenant name for NCR 3 in the public record
6Procurement
7Limits and open questions
8Sources
Sources: Nxtra Manesar data centre page, Nxtra by Airtel site, DataCenterMap Manesar and Gurgaon listings, DataCenterHawk, ocolo Gurugram listings, Baxtel Manesar listings, PeeringDB facility register, Anant Raj Cloud disclosures, Amar Ujala report on the Manesar data centre park.