NCR-1 in Noida is 69,735 square feet — 6,500 square metres, which reconciles exactly — of carrier-neutral space, Uptime Tier III certified, half an hour south-east of central New Delhi. The platform page says it has potential to scale up to 12 MW. Iron Mountain’s own facility material from 2022 describes the same building as a 6,500 m², 200 kW data centre. Two hundred kilowatts. That is a sixty-fold gap between what is switched on and what the marketing pages carry, and it is the single clearest example in this registry of why a capacity figure without a scope is worthless.
1At a glance
2Two hundred kilowatts and twelve megawatts
One building, one operator, two published figures sixty times apart. Both are on Iron Mountain’s own properties.
| Source | Figure | Scope stated |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Mountain facility video resource, 2022 | 200 kW | The building as it operates |
| Iron Mountain Asia-Pacific locations page, 2026 | 12 MW | Potential, listed as capacity in a summary table |
| Iron Mountain India platform page | 12 MW | “potential to scale up to 12 MW” |
| This registry | blank | Neither figure is commissioned load |
A scalability ceiling is a statement about the substation and the site. Commissioned load is a statement about the building. Publishing the first in a table headed capacity makes a 200 kW facility look like a 12 MW one.
It is not a lie and it is not unusual — every operator in this registry does a version of it. It is the reason a counted Indian total of 2,420.4 MW and a published total of 15,822.4 MW describe the same market.
This registry counts zero for NCR-1 rather than choosing between the two figures. A blank with an explanation is more useful than a number with no scope.
The 200 kW figure is from 2022 and may be stale. If the building has been fitted out since, the true current load is somewhere between 0.2 MW and 12 MW — and nobody has published where.
3What 69,735 square feet should hold
The floor area is the only firm number, so the implied load can be bounded from the operator’s own portfolio densities.
| Basis | Density | 69,735 sq ft implies |
|---|---|---|
| MUM-2, the densest building in the portfolio | 56.9 W per sq ft | 3.97 MW |
| MUM-1 and BLR-1 | 50.0 W per sq ft | 3.49 MW |
| HYD-1 | 45.8 W per sq ft | 3.19 MW |
| PUN-1, the least dense | 39.9 W per sq ft | 2.78 MW |
| Portfolio weighted average | 42.2 W per sq ft | 2.94 MW |
| NCR-1 as published in 2022 | 2.9 W per sq ft | 0.20 MW |
| NCR-1 at its 12 MW ceiling | 172 W per sq ft | Physically implausible for air cooling |
Two conclusions follow. First, 200 kW across 69,735 square feet is 2.9 watts per square foot — a building almost entirely unbuilt-out, with one small hall commissioned. Second, 12 MW in 69,735 square feet would be 172 watts per square foot, which needs liquid cooling and a ground-up rebuild, not a scale-up.
So the likely current figure is 0.2 to 3 MW and the 12 MW is a site capability statement. This registry publishes the bound rather than picking a point inside it.
4Noida in the national count
| Measure | MW | NCR-1 as a share |
|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh counted in this registry | 331.1 | 0.06% at 200 kW |
| NTT Noida 2, the largest Greater Noida campus | 52.8 | 3.8% at 12 MW, 0.4% at 200 kW |
| Uttar Pradesh at NCR-1’s 12 MW ceiling | 343.1 | +3.6% — the ceiling is immaterial |
| Delhi counted in this registry | 0 | The Delhi records carry no additive capacity |
| National counted total | 2,420.4 | Immaterial at either figure |
That is the point of the page. NCR-1 is commercially irrelevant at any of its published values, and it is the single best illustration in this registry of the measurement problem: the same building can be described as 0.2 MW or 12 MW, and neither is a lie.
The registry’s answer is to carry zero, name both figures, and let a buyer see the gap.
5Procurement
6Limits and open questions
- The 200 kW figure is from 2022 and may be stale. It is the only disclosed load the registry has for this building.
- 12 MW is scalability, not capacity. It is excluded from every total on this page.
- The 2.8 to 4.0 MW implied range assumes the operator builds to its own portfolio densities and is a Gridvik calculation, not a disclosure.
- 12 MW in 69,735 sq ft is 172 W per sq ft, which implies the ceiling refers to a rebuild rather than a fit-out.
- The floor area reconciles across sources at both 69,735 sq ft and 6,500 m², which is why the page leans on it.
- The count is zero. This is deliberate and is the correct treatment.
- What would close it. A single published figure with the word “commissioned” in front of it.
7Sources
Sources: the Iron Mountain Delhi-NCR location page; the Iron Mountain Asia-Pacific locations page; the Iron Mountain Data Centers India platform page; the Iron Mountain NCR-1 360-degree facility tour resource; and the Web Werks Delhi data centre page.