Mumbai tops APAC data centre capacity addition in Q1, says Report

The financial capital saw the highest addition of data centre capacity in the entire Asia Pacific region in the quarter ending March 2021, boosted by the continuing pandemic-driven lockdowns, says an industry report.

Mumbai added 56 mega watts (mw) in the January-March quarter, the sharpest increase in data centre supply in Asia Pacific, taking the total supply to 753 mw, a report by international property consultants Knight Frank said on Tuesday.

Between 2016 and 2019, Mumbai’s IT power capacity (the industry word for data centre) rose from 148 mw to 456 mw, the report published in partnership with data centre research and analytics platform DC Byte said.