Sify Nagpur 01 appears in the operator’s own edge data centre list, marked upcoming. It has no published capacity, no launch date, no capital figure and no named customer. The only number attached to it is the programme-wide claim on the same page — scalable up to 4.8 MW IT capacity — which is a product ceiling applied to every Sify edge site, not a measurement of Nagpur. It is also the only data centre record in Nagpur across 242 records covering 14 states. Nagpur is India’s thirteenth-most populous city and the logistics centre of the country’s middle. This page is therefore short by necessity: it reports what is published, prices what is not, and draws one arithmetic conclusion about the edge programme that the operator has not drawn itself.
1At a glance
2What is actually published
There are three published facts, and they are all programme-level rather than site-level.
| Fact | Source | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Nagpur 01 is listed as an upcoming AI Edge data centre | Sify Technologies edge data centre page | Programme list, no site detail |
| Sify edge sites are “scalable up to 4.8 MW IT capacity” | Same page, also stated as “each starting at 4.8 MW with room to scale” | A ceiling, not a measurement |
| Additional edge facilities are planned in Nagpur and Kolkata | Same page, FAQ | Two cities named, no sites identified |
| 4 to 5 smaller data centres will be built annually, with AI inference facilities planned in Lucknow, Chandigarh and Nagpur | Sify interview, April 2025 | A rate claim, one year old |
| A Nagpur build is under way with first phase expected in 2026 | One third-party aggregator | Unsourced, not repeated by the operator |
That is the whole file. No acreage, no substation voltage, no rack count, no phase split, no capital figure. Compare it with a record that has real disclosure: Sify Kolkata 01 publishes 1.08 MW; Sify Hyderabad 01 publishes 14.4 MW, 2,400 racks, a PUE of 1.5 and a 33 kV dual feeder. Nagpur publishes the ceiling of a product line.
If every announced site were credited with its product ceiling, Sify’s twelve planned edge sites would add 57.6 MW to a national total on the strength of a marketing sentence.
That is the exact mechanism that produced the defect this registry has just repaired, where a 1 GW incentive approval carried 21% of a national capacity headline.
A ceiling is recorded, labelled and excluded. The 4.8 MW is in this page and in the audit file as an excluded figure with a written reason, which is what a diligence file is supposed to look like.
3Where 4.8 MW ranks inside Sify's own estate
| Facility | MW counted | Basis | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rabale Tower 5, Mumbai | 43.30 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Noida 02 | 30.00 | Operator-stated IT | Stage unverified |
| Chennai 02, Siruseri | 25.92 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Hyderabad 01 | 14.40 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Noida 01 | 10.96 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Bangalore 02 | 7.00 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Bangalore 01 | 4.82 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Chandigarh 01, edge | 4.80 | Operator-stated ceiling | Live |
| Lucknow 01, edge | 4.80 | Operator-stated ceiling | Live |
| Airoli, Mumbai | 4.05 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Chennai 01 | 3.58 | Operator-stated IT | Operating |
| Kolkata 01 | 1.08 | IT | Operating |
| Vashi, Mumbai | 0.38 | IT | Operating |
| Total counted across 11 additive records | 155.09 | — | — |
The Nagpur ceiling is 3.1% of Sify’s counted capacity and 1.3% of Maharashtra’s 376.7 MW operating. It is a real facility for a customer who needs central-India latency. It is not a fact that moves a national number, and presenting it as one would be the kind of rounding this registry exists to avoid.
The more useful comparison is internal: at its full ceiling Nagpur would rank eighth of fourteen Sify sites — level with the two live edge sites and below every campus, including Bangalore 01 at 4.82 MW, a building from 2001. Sify’s edge product is, by design, an order of magnitude smaller than its campuses — which is fine, and which means the edge programme cannot be the answer to the 33 MW gap between Sify’s counted capacity and its own 188 MW built figure.
4Maharashtra has 376.7 MW operating and Nagpur has none of it
Maharashtra is the largest data centre state in this registry: 1,551.9 MW total, of which 376.7 MW operating, 355.0 MW under construction and 820.2 MW announced. Nagpur, its third-largest city, contributes zero — not because nothing is planned, but because nothing has been published that can be counted.
| Operator | Operating MW | Facilities | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTT Global Data Centers | 191.00 | 9 | Mumbai 5 to 9, Vikhroli, BSE, NAV1A |
| Yotta Data Services | 54.00 | 3 | NM1 and two Navi Mumbai halls |
| Sify Technologies | 47.73 | 3 | Rabale Tower 5, Airoli, Vashi |
| CapitaLand India Trust | 34.00 | 1 | Mumbai Tower 1 |
| Iron Mountain | 2.00 | 1 | PUN-1 Pune |
| Nagpur, all operators | 0.00 | 0 | One upcoming edge record, no capacity |
| Maharashtra total | 376.73 | 18 | Plus 22 building and pipeline records |
Nagpur’s case is genuinely strong and nobody has built against it. It sits at the junction of the Mumbai–Kolkata and Mumbai–Chennai road corridors, on the central grid, with land at a fraction of Navi Mumbai’s cost and a fibre path to both coasts. It is the largest Indian city with no counted data centre capacity in this registry.
That sentence is the product. An operator or a state agency deciding where the next 50 MW goes is choosing between cities, and no one currently publishes which Indian cities have zero counted capacity. This registry can, for all 242 records, and Nagpur is the clearest example.
5The edge programme, counted against its own plan
Sify has made four separate statements about edge capacity, and they are consistent in shape and vague in number.
- Sify says it will build 4 to 5 smaller data centres annually, with AI inference facilities planned in Lucknow, Chandigarh and Nagpur.
- Ground broken at Lucknow, on the HCL IT City campus at Sultanpur Road. Phase I operational June 2025.
- Chandigarh 01 and Lucknow 01 go live. Each is published at up to 4.8 MW IT.
- Sify reports two more edge sites under construction and a plan for 10 to 12 edge data centres over several years.
- Nagpur 01 and Kolkata 02 are listed as upcoming. Neither has a stated capacity, date or capital figure, and neither is confirmed as one of the two sites under construction.
| Sites | MW at 4.8 MW each | Share of the registry's operating total |
|---|---|---|
| 2 delivered | 9.6 | 1.2% of 778.69 MW |
| 4 stated under construction | 19.2 | 2.5% |
| 10, low end of the plan | 48.0 | 6.2% |
| 12, high end of the plan | 57.6 | 7.4% |
| The whole edge plan, if fully built | 57.6 | 7.4% of national operating capacity |
The entire edge programme, at maximum, is worth 57.6 MW. Sify’s built capacity is 188 MW and its operational revenue-generating capacity is 134 MW. The edge plan cannot close the gap between those two figures and neither can it explain the gap between 188 MW and the 155.09 MW this registry counts.
That reframes the interesting question. The missing 33 MW is not in tier-two cities. It is inside the campuses — most likely in towers at Rabale and Siruseri that have no building-level record, which is a data problem this registry can fix and a marketing problem it cannot.
6How many data centres does Sify have?
The operator’s own pages give three different answers in the same quarter. This matters because facility count divided into capacity is how anyone outside the company estimates average site size.
| Statement | Operational | Upcoming | Where it appears |
|---|---|---|---|
| “15 operational data centres and 10 upcoming facilities” | 15 | 10 | Neocloud page |
| “16 pan India DCs, with 9 upcoming hyperscale and edge DCs” | 16 | 9 | AI Edge page |
| “11 upcoming metro and edge data centres” | — | 11 | Colocation services page |
| “22 live data centres” attributed to NTT | — | — | Comparison: NTT states 22 live in India |
| Facility records in this registry | 11 | 4 | Gridvik master, additive and non-additive combined |
Fifteen, sixteen and eleven are not the same estate. Nor is the capacity claim stable: 86+ MW available, scalable to 263+ MW on the edge page; 188 MW live capacity on the colocation page; 134 MW operational, revenue-generating on the July 2026 earnings call; 200 MW operational in an April 2026 interview; 675 MW in five years in a September 2026 interview.
None of these is a lie. They are different measures — designed, built, available, operational, revenue-generating — reported by different executives to different audiences over eighteen months. But an investor building a model from press coverage will mix them, and the resulting number will be wrong by a factor of three.
Gridvik’s job is to hold one definition per facility and one facility per record, and to say which is which. Sify publishes five capacity figures; this registry counts one number built from eleven named buildings and says so on every page.
That is worth money because it is the difference between a market estimate and a diligence file. A buyer of this dataset is not buying megawatts. They are buying the ability to answer “which number, and why” in a meeting.
The same test applies to every operator in the file. NTT publishes 400 MW live in India; this registry counts 273.2 MW across 16 operating records. Both numbers are published, side by side, on PRJ-234.
7What would change this record
| Fact needed | Effect | Where it would come from |
|---|---|---|
| A stated capacity for this site | Up to 4.8 MW moves from excluded to operating | Operator announcement, or a state single-window clearance |
| A named site and substation | Confirms the project is physical rather than a city on a list | Maharashtra industrial clearance, or MADC land allocation |
| A launch date | Moves the record from announced to building, and starts the clock | Operator statement, ground-breaking coverage |
| A named customer | Converts a plan into contracted revenue, which is what a buyer prices | Joint announcement or a colocation disclosure |
Until at least two of those exist, this page is four hundred words of absence — and that is the honest length for a record at this stage. A page inflated with speculative acreage and guessed capex would be worse than a short one.
The registry’s position is that a zero is information. Nagpur is one of 45 zero-capacity or unquantified records in a 242-record file, and a buyer needs to see them, not have them padded or deleted.
8Sources
Sources: Sify Technologies AI Edge data centre page, listing Chandigarh 01 and Lucknow 01 as live and Nagpur 01 and Kolkata 02 as upcoming, with the 4.8 MW IT capacity ceiling; Sify Technologies data centre index; Sify neocloud infrastructure page; an interview with Sify’s data centre business leadership, April 2025, describing 4 to 5 smaller data centres annually; a technology trade publication report of July 2026 covering the earnings call, the two completed edges and the 10 to 12 site plan; one third-party data centre aggregator stating a Nagpur build with first phase expected in 2026, unsourced and not repeated by the operator. No capacity, capital or customer figure has been published for this site. Record verified 26 October 2026.