CtrlS lists 13 MW for its Bengaluru facility. There is no rack count, no floor area and no commissioning date. The basis is the interesting part: this registry records it as IT load, but the operator page does not state that explicitly — so Bengaluru may be the third CtrlS site with a clean capacity basis, or the fifth without one. At 13 MW it is 14.3% of counted Karnataka capacity and the largest single CtrlS building outside Mumbai. It is also, on the evidence available, a number that cannot be compared with Mumbai’s 118.8 MW until somebody states the unit.
1At a glance
2Where 13 MW sits in Karnataka
Karnataka is a market of mid-sized buildings, which makes a single 13 MW record unusually significant.
| Operator | Counted | Basis stated |
|---|---|---|
| Nxtra, four Bengaluru buildings | 45.4 MW | not stated |
| CtrlS Bengaluru | 13 MW | half stated |
| NTT Bengaluru 3 | 12 MW | not stated |
| Sify, two Bengaluru sites | 11.8 MW | not stated |
| NTT Bengaluru 2 | 4.5 MW | not stated |
| Iron Mountain BLR 1 | 4 MW | not stated |
Six records account for almost all of the state. Every one of them leaves the capacity basis unstated except this one, which half-states it. That is the shape of the Indian market outside Mumbai and Chennai: 4 to 15 MW buildings, no racks published, no PUE published, and a state total assembled from numbers nobody defined.
Thirteen megawatts is also the point at which a facility stops being edge infrastructure and becomes a real colocation building. Karnataka has several of them and no single campus above 20 MW that is counted.
3The basis that is only half stated
This page exists mainly to keep one problem visible: a record can be half-documented in a way that looks complete in a table.
| Site | Figure | What the page says | Comparable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chennai DC park | 72 MW | IT load | yes |
| Chennai DC 2 | 27 MW | IT load | yes |
| Noida | 8 MW | IT load | yes |
| Bengaluru | 13 MW | nothing — the figure appears with no unit qualifier | unknown |
| Mumbai DC 1 to DC 5 | 118.8 MW | power capacity, unlabelled | no |
| Hyderabad DC 1 to DC 3 | 26.4 MW | power capacity, unlabelled | no |
| Chandanvelly park | 700 MW | not stated | no |
| Future City campus | 750 MW | not stated | no |
If Bengaluru is IT load, then CtrlS runs three buildings in the north and south of India on a stated IT basis and five sites on an unstated one. If it is gross facility load, the 13 MW is worth perhaps 9 MW of IT at a PUE of 1.4 — and the gap between those two readings is a third of the building.
The honest position, and the one this record takes: the number is retained at 13 MW as the operator states it, the basis field is marked ambiguous rather than clean, and any comparison with Chennai or Mumbai carries that caveat.
A facility with no figure gets skipped and nobody builds a wrong number on it. A facility with a figure and no unit gets used, and the unit gets assumed by whoever is building the model.
Nine megawatts and thirteen megawatts are the same building. Only one of them is the number a buyer will act on.
4What 13 MW would hold
No rack count is published for Bengaluru, so the density has to be bracketed rather than stated.
| Assumed density | Racks from 13 MW | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 4.6 kW — the Nxtra Bengaluru average | 2,826 racks | a low-density estate, storage and enterprise |
| 6.5 kW — the Indian market median | 2,000 racks | general colocation |
| 8 kW — a dense enterprise build | 1,625 racks | contained aisles, some accelerated compute |
These are brackets, not figures. The 4.6 kW comparison is real — it comes from Nxtra’s published Bengaluru rack and capacity numbers, which is the only operator in the state that publishes both. Every other rack count in Karnataka, including this building’s, is unpublished.
That gap is worth stating plainly, because it is the core weakness of the entire Bengaluru market: capacity is published, cabinets are not, so nobody can compute density, and density is what determines whether a building can host accelerated compute or is a storage hall.
5Procurement
6Limits and open questions
- Basis half stated. The single biggest weakness. 13 MW could be IT load or gross facility capacity, and the two differ by roughly a third.
- No rack count, no floor area, no PUE. Density cannot be computed.
- No commissioning date. Stage unverified.
- Single source. No directory or trade press corroborates the 13 MW.
- Not linked to any power announcement. Nothing in the record ties this capacity to a specific supply contract.
- What would close it. A rack count and a stated basis. Two lines.
7Sources
Sources: CtrlS Bengaluru data centre page, CtrlS corporate site, Nxtra and NTT Bengaluru material for the market comparison, Karnataka state investment material, and Indian market commentary on the Bengaluru data centre market.