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Facility record · Verified 26 Oct 2026

CtrlS Hyderabad DC 1 — HITEC CityCtrlS Datacenters · HITEC City, Hyderabad · 1,152 racks, 191,749 sq ft, 4 to 6 MW listed power

Record PRJ-091Telangana — HITEC City, HyderabadTier D — listed only9 public sources checkedAdditive: yes
Stage unverified4 MW or 6 MWFacilityBuilt 2008
1,152
Racks
191,749
Square feet
4–6MW
Listed power
3.5–5.2kW
Per rack
2008
Year built
6zone
Security layers

CtrlS Hyderabad DC 1 has 1,152 racks across 191,749 square feet and, depending on which page of the operator’s own website you read, either 4 MW or 6 MW of power. It was built in 2008 in HITEC City and is the oldest large data centre in this registry — the building the company calls India’s first Rated-4 facility. The disagreement about its power is not a scandal. It is an ordinary consequence of a seventeen-year-old asset sitting behind a modern web page, and it is the reason this page exists.

1At a glance

Operator
CtrlS Datacenters Limited, founded 2007, headquartered in Hyderabad
Facility
Hyderabad DC 1, HITEC City. The operator describes it as India’s first Rated-4 data centre
Physical
1,152 racks across 191,749 square feet
Listed power
6 MW on the operator’s Hyderabad page, 4 MW on its colocation page and in its press material. Neither is labelled as IT load on the current page
Density
Between 3.5 and 5.2 kW a rack, depending on the power figure used
Security
Six-zone on the current page. A company sub-page says eight-zone
Status
Stage unverified on the operator’s page. A directory records the building as operating since 2008
Not disclosed
IT load, current occupancy, PUE and customer mix
Additivity
Additive within CtrlS’s Telangana footprint

2Four megawatts or six

The same company publishes two power figures for the same building, and one of them appears in its own press releases.

What the operator says about its own building
PageRacksPowerLabelled as
Hyderabad data centre page1,1526 MWpower capacity
Colocation page1,1524 MWpower capacity
Press material cited by directories1,1524 MWIT capacity
A company sub-page for the same site1,4006 MWpower capacity
PeeringDB, 20241,1524 MWpower capacity

The gap is 50% and it moves the density of the building from 3.5 to 5.2 kW a rack. Racks and floor area agree across every source; only the power moves. That is the signature of a document problem rather than a physical one — most likely a 4 MW IT figure being replaced by a 6 MW figure that includes electrical infrastructure, without the older number being retired everywhere.

A 2008 building with 1,152 racks and a six-zone security standard is not a competitive asset in 2026. It is a legacy asset in one of the best-connected locations in the country, and its value is the location and the customer contracts rather than the electrical capacity. Which power figure is right determines whether it can grow at all.

Why this page still matters

Every market forecast built on operator capacity cards inherits this kind of error. A 2 MW discrepancy on one building is nothing; the same pattern across a portfolio is a 10% error in a national number.

The registry publishes both figures and refuses to pick one.

3A 2008 building in 2026

Seventeen years is the full working life of an electrical topology. What was specified for a 2008 enterprise customer cannot be re-specified for an AI tenant without rebuilding the switchgear, the UPS plant and the cooling distribution.

The three CtrlS Hyderabad buildings, oldest to newest
DC 1DC 2DC 3
Built200820202024
DistrictHITEC CityGachibowliGachibowli
Racks1,1527203,500 on the card
Power4 to 6 MW7.4 MW13 MW
Floor area191,749 sq ft82,262 sq ft130,000 sq ft
Power per square foot21 to 31 W90 W100 W
Security zonessixninenine

Read the power-per-square-foot row. The 2008 building delivers between 21 and 31 watts a square foot; the 2020 and 2024 buildings deliver 90 and 100. That is a three-to-four-fold change in what the same floor area can do, and it is the cleanest measure of why old data centres are worth less than their location.

DC 2 — 2020, Gachibowli7.4 MW, 720 racks10.3 kWDC 1 — 2008, HITEC City6 MW, 1,152 racks5.2 kWDC 3 — 2024, on the operator’s rack count13 MW, 3,500 racks3.7 kWDC 3 — on the launch rack count13 MW, about 1,300 racks10.0 kWThe two figures for DC 3 are two kilometres apart and four times apart in density. Everything else on this page follows from that.
Figure 1Density by building. The two DC 3 bars are the same building described two ways — see PRJ-093.

The comparison also explains the company’s strategy. CtrlS is not retrofitting HITEC City. It is building at Chandanvelly, forty acres 30 kilometres out, for 600 to 700 MW, with a 400 kV grid connection and a 700 MVA sanction. The three city buildings total 26.4 MW together, which is 4% of that one campus plan.

4Timeline

  • CtrlS is founded in Hyderabad
  • DC 1 opens in HITEC City and is described as India’s first Rated-4 data centre
  • DC 2 opens in Gachibowli at 7.4 MW across 720 racks
  • DC 3 opens at 13 MW; the company says it operates three Hyderabad facilities and 250 MW nationally
  • The operator publishes 6 MW for DC 1 on one page and 4 MW on another
  • No IT load, PUE or occupancy for DC 1 in the public record

5Procurement

Procurement window and scope
Gridvik assessment · 26 Oct 2026
What this building buys
Almost nothing new. A 2008 hall at 3.5 to 5.2 kW a rack is on maintenance, spares and incremental efficiency work
What it is good for commercially
It is a live reference site in the best-connected part of Hyderabad, with more than a decade of operational history. That is worth a site visit to a vendor even if it is worth nothing to a growth plan
What the operator is actually buying
Capacity at Chandanvelly — 40 acres, 600 to 700 MW planned, a 400 kV connection with a 700 MVA sanction, and a GIS scaled for it. That is where the capital goes
Account structure
CtrlS buys centrally from Hyderabad; this is the head office city, so access is easier than at any other site in the portfolio
Likely window
Refresh only
Quality of evidence
Weak by the standards of this registry — four sources, four combinations of racks, power and security zones
Our confidence
High on 1,152 racks and 191,749 square feet. Low on power, which the operator itself reports two ways
All estimates are labelled as estimates. No tender dates claimed, no private contact data published.
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6Limits and open questions

What this record is
The operator’s first data centre, a 2008 building of 1,152 racks in HITEC City, and the oldest large facility in this registry
What it is not
A verified 6 MW, or a verified 4 MW, or an AI-capable hall
What Gridvik will not do
We will not average 4 and 6 MW, and we will not assume the larger figure is the newer one without a date on it
First question
Is the 6 MW figure a facility load and the 4 MW an IT load? If so both are right, and the building’s IT capacity is 3.5 kW a rack, which makes it the least dense large facility in this registry
Second question
What is it earning? A 2008 hall in HITEC City with long-tenured enterprise customers may be the most profitable square foot in the portfolio, and nobody publishes a rate
Why this record matters
It is the reference case for how operator cards decay: physical facts stay stable across sources and the number that determines value does not
What changes the tier
A single reconciled power figure with a basis, an IT-load statement, or a PUE

7Sources

Sources: CtrlS Hyderabad data centre page, CtrlS colocation page, CtrlS corporate site and a company sub-page for the site, PeeringDB facility register, Data Center Dynamics on CtrlS in Hyderabad, Baxtel Hyderabad listings, datacenterlocations, dcmarketinsights.