Adani Group plans to build 1,000-MW data centres in 10 years

Panaji: Adani Group firm AdaniConneX is planning to build 1,000 megawatt data centres — almost double the present size of the total industry — over a period of 10 years, a senior company official said. AdaniConneX Senior Vice President and Head of Data Centre Business, Sanjay Bhutani said the the first seven data centres of the company will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru and Pune.

“We are building 1,000 megawatt data centres. Today, the industry stands at 550 MW. Building 1,000 megawatt data centre in the next one decade is something which is our business plan,” Bhutani said while speaking at 9.9 Group’s CIO and Leader Conference on Saturday.

Data centre capacity is measured in terms of power they consume. According to market research firm Arizton, India’s data centre market size stood at 447 MW in 2021, valued at USD 10.9 billion.