STT GDC states 6 MW for Hyderabad and publishes exactly one building card, at 4 MW of IT load. Two megawatts are attributed to no building at all. This is the smallest portfolio in the STT estate, and it is in the most contested data centre city in southern India, where 341.3 MW is counted. Six megawatts would be 1.8% of that. The two missing megawatts are probably one small building that never got its own card, and the operator has not said so.
1At a glance
2Six against four
Two megawatts is not a rounding difference in a six-megawatt portfolio. It is a third of the city.
| If the 2 MW is | Then | What to do about it |
|---|---|---|
| A second building with no card | the portfolio has two sites and only one is published | ask the operator for the second card |
| Shared plant counted as IT capacity | the headline mixes IT with facility load | the 4 MW card is the only usable figure |
| A planned expansion not yet built | the headline includes forward capacity | treat 4 MW as the operating number |
The third reading is the most likely, and it is the same pattern documented in Noida: a city headline that includes capacity which is not yet operating. What makes Hyderabad different is scale — a 33% overstatement is easy to spot in a six-megawatt portfolio and nearly invisible in a 63 MW one.
This registry holds 4 MW for the building and 6 MW for the headline, and treats the difference as unresolved rather than allocating it.
3A city that left the portfolio behind
Hyderabad is the largest data centre market in southern India by announced capacity and one of the smallest in STT’s estate. That is a revenue problem the company has effectively conceded.
| Operator | Counted | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| CtrlS Hyderabad, three buildings | 26.4 MW | operator cards, unlabelled power capacity |
| CtrlS Chandanvelly park | 700 MW claimed | not counted — no building |
| CtrlS Future City campus | 750 MW claimed | not counted — no building |
| STT Hyderabad | 6 MW headline, 4 MW building | counted at zero |
| All counted Telangana capacity | 341.3 MW | across many operators |
Against CtrlS’s presence in the same city — three named buildings at 26.4 MW and two parks claimed at 1.45 GW between them — STT’s six megawatts is a rounding error. The company built early in Hyderabad and then stopped.
That is a strategic choice worth reading carefully, because it is the opposite of what every other operator did. Hyderabad became India’s fastest-growing data centre market on the back of state policy and cheap power, and the operator with a national platform chose not to scale there.
CtrlS publishes 4 or 6 MW for its own Hyderabad DC 1. STT publishes 4 MW for a building and 6 MW for its Hyderabad portfolio.
Two operators, one city, the same pair of numbers. Anyone comparing Hyderabad capacity across operators is working with a 2 MW ambiguity in both directions.
4Procurement
5Limits and open questions
- Two megawatts unaccounted for. No published building supports the headline.
- No stage, racks, floor area or PUE on the one building card.
- Basis unresolved. The headline is not labelled IT or gross; the card is IT.
- Counted at zero in a state total of 341.3 MW.
- No expansion signal. Nothing in the public record suggests STT intends to grow in Hyderabad.
- What would close it. A second building card, or a statement that the headline includes forward capacity.
6Sources
Sources: STT GDC India Hyderabad city page, STT GDC India facility pages for Hyderabad, STT GDC India corporate site, CtrlS Hyderabad material for the market comparison, and Indian market commentary on the Hyderabad data centre market.