Mumbai home to highest number of data centres: Report

The financial capital witnessed the highest capacity addition on data centres in the January-June period this year and now accounts for 42 per cent of the overall installed capacity in the country, a report said on Monday. Cable landing stations, assured power supply and incentives given by the Maharashtra government were cited as the prime reasons why the data centres have chosen to operate in the region, as per the report by a realty consultancy firm.

The demand for data centre space was helped by regulations like the one on data localization for all financial sector firms, and realty companies which are holding on to land banks amid a slump in the market are looking at the space very keenly.

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