India AI Data Center Market Size, Share & Forecast to 2035

The India AI Data Center Market is valued at USD 946.74 million in 2026 and is projected to reach USD 9.91 billion by 2035, up from USD 608.29 million in 2025, a CAGR of 32.20% from 2025 to 2035 (DC Market Insights estimate). The market covers the facility infrastructure built in India for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads: electrical systems, cooling, building shell and fit-out, the AI cluster network fabric, and the operations services and software that run these halls; graphics processing unit (GPU) servers are excluded. The 2025 build receipt is 60 megawatts (MW) of new AI information technology (IT) capacity × USD 9.00 million of facility and network content per MW = USD 540.00 million of new-build spend, plus 170.7 MW of installed AI capacity × USD 400 thousand per MW of service and refresh spend = USD 68.29 million. AI Inference is the fastest segment at 38.12% a year as Indian banks, telecom operators and public platforms put models into production, and South India is the fastest-growing region of India at 36.72% a year because Google’s gigawatt-scale Visakhapatnam hub and the Chennai and Hyderabad campuses come on line.

Key Market Statistics: How Big Is the India AI Data Center Market in 2026?

DC Market Insights values the India AI Data Center Market at USD 946.74 million in 2026, 55.6% above the USD 608.29 million of 2025, as new AI capacity rises from 60 MW to 91 MW.

• Market size 2025: USD 608.29 million
• Market size 2026: USD 946.74 million
• Market size 2030: USD 5.80 billion
• Market size 2035: USD 9.91 billion
• CAGR 2025-2035: 32.20% (low case 27.13%, high case 36.48%)
• Largest component: Electrical Infrastructure, 38.00% of 2025 spend (USD 231.15 million)
• Fastest segment: AI Inference, 38.12% a year
• Leading region: West India, 52.00% of 2025 spend; fastest-growing region: South India, 36.72%
• Largest state: Maharashtra, USD 279.81 million in 2025
• Market leader: Yotta Data Services, about 11% of 2025 spend (DC Market Insights estimate)

India AI Data Center Market Summary: What Did India Spend on AI Halls in 2025?

India spent USD 608.29 million on AI data center infrastructure in 2025. The India AI Data Center Market size was valued at USD 21.39 million in 2020, reached USD 608.29 million in 2025, and is anticipated to reach USD 9.91 billion by 2035, at a CAGR of 32.20% during the forecast period. Between 2020 and 2025 the market grew at 95.33% a year from a very small base, as the AI share of new Indian capacity rose from 3% to 20%.

Report Attribute	Details
Historical Period	2020-2024
Base Year	2025
Forecast Period	2026-2035
India AI Data Center Market Size 2025	USD 608.29 million
India AI Data Center Market Size 2026	USD 946.74 million
India AI Data Center Market CAGR (2025-2035)	32.20%
India AI Data Center Market Size 2035	USD 9.91 billion

DC Market Insights estimates that new AI capacity in India rises from 60 MW in 2025 to 500 MW in 2030 and 725 MW in 2035, lifting the market to USD 5.80 billion in 2030. India’s installed data center capacity grew from 375 MW in 2020 to about 1,575 MW in 2026 (Source: Press Information Bureau (PIB), Lok Sabha reply), and the AI share of each new MW rises from 20% in 2025 to 58% in 2035. India is the fastest growing large country in the Asia Pacific AI Data Center Market, and the host market for all workloads is sized in the India Data Center Market report.

Key takeaways:

• USD 608.29 million in 2025, USD 946.74 million in 2026 and USD 9.91 billion by 2035, a 32.20% CAGR.
• Electrical Infrastructure is the largest component at 38.00% (USD 231.15 million).
• West India leads with 52.00%; South India grows fastest at 36.72%.
• An Indian AI data center hall costs about USD 9.00 million per MW to build and equip in 2025, before servers.
• Hyperscale Self-Build overtakes colocation as the largest buyer, with 46.00% of spend by 2035.

What Is an India AI Data Center, and What Does the Market Cover?

An India AI data center is a facility, or a hall inside one, built for GPU and accelerator clusters at 40 kilowatts (kW) to more than 130 kW per rack; India AI Data Center covers the infrastructure of these halls, a USD 608.29 million market in 2025. Yotta’s 60 MW second Greater Noida building, Data Center 2 (D2), which will host 20,736 liquid-cooled NVIDIA Corporation (NVIDIA) Blackwell Ultra GPUs, is a typical example (Source: Yotta Data Services).

Included: medium-voltage and low-voltage switchgear, transformers, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), busways and diesel generators (Electrical Infrastructure); chillers, coolant distribution units (CDUs), direct-to-chip and immersion cooling (Cooling Infrastructure); the shell, structural fit-out and white-space construction (Building Shell and Fit-Out); the back-end GPU interconnect and front-end fabric switches, optics and cabling (AI Network Fabric); and commissioning, operations, maintenance, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software and refresh (Operations Services and Software). Excluded: GPU and central processing unit (CPU) servers, storage, land, electricity bills, captive renewable plants and GPU-as-a-service rental revenue. Artificial neural network training and inference, the workloads behind the India artificial neural network market, run in these halls; the neural network software itself sits outside this facility estimate.

How the segments fit together: each of the three dimensions (component, data center type and workload) splits the same USD 608.29 million total in 2025 and the same USD 9.91 billion in 2035, and the five Indian regions and 12 states sum to the same totals.

Why Do India AI Data Center Market Estimates Differ?

Published India AI data center figures range from under USD 1 billion to tens of billions because they count different things; DC Market Insights puts the facility market at USD 946.74 million in 2026. Broader definitions add the GPU servers themselves (Yotta’s 60 MW D2 deployment alone carries more than USD 2 billion of investment, mostly accelerators; Source: Yotta Data Services), land and power plants, AI cloud and GPU-as-a-service revenue, and the whole data center pipeline whether or not it is built for AI.

Element	In this report?	Why
Electrical, cooling, shell and fit-out of AI halls	Yes (USD 498.80 million in 2025)	Built specifically for AI rack densities
AI network fabric	Yes (USD 60.83 million)	Part of the cluster facility, not the server
Operations, DCIM and refresh	Yes (USD 48.66 million)	Recurring spend on the installed AI base
GPU servers and storage	No	Imported compute hardware with its own price cycle
GPU cloud rental revenue	No	Service revenue, would double count the facility
Conventional enterprise and cloud halls	No	Covered by the India Data Center Market report

Out of scope in prose as well: GPU servers, accelerators, storage arrays, land, captive solar and wind plants, electricity bills, GPU-as-a-service and AI cloud subscriptions, and conventional non-AI halls. In scope across buyer groups: hyperscalers, colocation and wholesale operators, government and sovereign compute programmes, and enterprises including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) buying edge AI rooms. The India Data Center Market gives the all-workload total.

What Drives India AI Data Center Demand After the IndiaAI Mission and the Visakhapatnam Hub?

New AI capacity of 91 MW in 2026, up from 60 MW in 2025, drives the market. DC Market Insights estimates that India adds 350 MW of IT capacity in 2026, of which 26% is built for AI, and each AI MW carries USD 9.24 million of facility and network content.

Hyperscaler Commitments Exceed USD 47 Billion

In October 2025 Google committed about USD 15 billion over 2026-2030 to its first AI hub in India at Visakhapatnam, with AdaniConneX and Bharti Airtel (Airtel) as partners (Source: Google), and broke ground in April 2026 (Source: Google). In December 2025 Microsoft committed USD 17.5 billion over calendar years 2026 to 2029, on top of USD 3 billion announced in January 2025 (Source: Microsoft). Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans USD 12.7 billion of cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, taking its total commitment to USD 16.4 billion (Source: Amazon). DC Market Insights estimates that these three programmes support about USD 1.2 billion a year of AI facility spend from 2027, which is why Hyperscale Self-Build grows at 33.40% a year.

The IndiaAI Mission Puts 38,000 GPUs on a Public Portal

The Cabinet approved the IndiaAI Mission in March 2024 with an outlay of Rs 10,371.92 crore over five years; from an initial target of 10,000 GPUs it reached 38,000 GPUs offered at a subsidised Rs 65 per hour (Source: PIB). At about 1.2 kW to 1.5 kW per GPU including networking, 38,000 GPUs need 46 MW to 57 MW of IT load, or USD 0.41 billion to USD 0.51 billion of facility content at USD 9.00 million per MW. Sovereign and Government AI therefore holds 12.00% of spend, USD 72.99 million in 2025.

Installed Capacity Quadrupled to 1,575 MW, and Demand Outruns Supply

India’s installed data center capacity rose from 375 MW in 2020 to about 1,575 MW (Source: PIB), and in the first half (H1) of 2026 absorption reached 101 MW against 85 MW of new supply (Source: Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)). JLL expects capacity to rise from 1.6 gigawatts (GW) in mid-2026 to 6 GW by 2029, requiring USD 110 billion of investment (Source: JLL). DC Market Insights models a slower delivered path, from 300 MW of new IT capacity in 2025 to 1,000 MW in 2030, and lifts the AI share of it from 20% to 50%, which takes the market from USD 608.29 million to USD 5.80 billion.

Which Trends Are Reshaping India’s AI Data Center Build-Out?

Three trends shape the India AI Data Center Market: inference rising from 40% of 2025 spend to 62% by 2035, liquid cooling in every new AI hall, and AI campuses moving to power-rich coastal and secondary states.

Inference Grows from USD 243.32 million to USD 6.15 billion

AI Inference grows at 38.12% a year against 26.29% for AI Training, because Indian-language models, payments fraud screening and telecom network AI need capacity close to users in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). Inference overtakes training in 2030 in the DC Market Insights model.

Cooling Rises from 17% to 21% of Spend

Cooling Infrastructure grows at 35.02%, from USD 103.41 million to USD 2.08 billion. Yotta’s D2 GPUs are liquid-cooled (Source: Yotta Data Services), the pattern behind CDUs and cold-plate loops being added on top of chillers in India’s 40 °C summers. Detail by cooling type is in the India Data Center Cooling Market report.

Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh Join Mumbai as AI Hubs

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) will develop a 168 MW AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar for Meta (Source: RIL), and its Reliance Intelligence unit plans gigawatt-scale, green-powered AI data centers there (Source: RIL). With Google’s Visakhapatnam hub, these projects lift Gujarat from USD 36.50 million to USD 694.03 million and Andhra Pradesh from USD 6.08 million to USD 1.29 billion by 2035.

What Challenges Hold Back the India AI Data Center Market?

Power and delivery speed are the two challenges, and together they explain the USD 3.21 billion gap between the base and low 2035 cases.

Data Center Power Demand Could Reach 17 GW by 2031-32

A PIB backgrounder citing the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) says data center power demand in India could reach 17 GW by 2031-32 (Source: PIB). Each AI MW needs dual-grid feeds and, for green-power buyers, open-access renewable contracts; the Green Energy Open Access Rules 2022 cut the open-access threshold from 1 MW to 100 kW (Source: PIB, Ministry of Power). In the low case, 25% fewer MW are delivered from 2027 and the market reaches USD 6.71 billion in 2035 instead of USD 9.91 billion.

Delivery Lags Announcements by More than Half

H1 2026 delivered 85 MW of supply while absorption was 101 MW (Source: JLL), and PIB counts nearly USD 70 billion of data center investment underway with another USD 90 billion announced (Source: PIB). DC Market Insights assumes India reaches 4,945 MW of installed capacity by 2030, below the nearly 8 GW projected in the PIB backgrounder (Source: PIB), because transformers, switchgear and skilled commissioning crews limit how fast announced MW become live halls.

Where Are the New Revenue Opportunities in Indian AI Data Centers?

South India adds USD 3.98 billion of annual spend between 2025 and 2035, and installed-base services reach USD 2.23 billion by 2035.

South India Adds USD 3.98 billion

South India grows from USD 182.49 million to USD 4.16 billion. ST Telemedia (STT) Global Data Centres (GDC) India, or STT GDC India, runs more than 400 MW of critical IT load across 30 data centers and committed Rs 4,200 crore to Chennai (Source: STT GDC India), and Microsoft’s India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad has three availability zones (Source: Microsoft).

Installed-Base Services Reach USD 2.23 billion

Installed AI capacity rises from 170.7 MW in 2025 to 4,459.3 MW in 2035, and service, DCIM and refresh spend per MW from USD 400 thousand to USD 500 thousand a year, so the installed-base pool grows from USD 68.29 million to USD 2.23 billion. Monitoring software is sized in the India Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Market report.

How Much Does an AI Data Center Cost per MW in India?

An India AI data center cost about USD 9.00 million per MW of IT load to build and equip in 2025, before servers, in DC Market Insights estimates, rising to USD 10.60 million per MW by 2035 as liquid cooling and denser electrical trains spread; that is about 18% below the Asia Pacific average of USD 11.00 million because civil works and labour cost less.

Year	Facility and network content per new AI MW (USD million)	Service and refresh per installed AI MW (USD thousand a year)	New AI IT capacity (MW)	AI share of new Indian capacity
2020	7.50	300	1.8	3%
2025	9.00	400	60.0	20%
2030	10.20	450	500.0	50%
2035	10.60	500	725.0	58%

Public price anchors: Adani has committed USD 100 billion to renewable-powered, AI-ready hyperscale data centers by 2035 and targets 5 GW at AdaniConneX (Source: Adani Group), about USD 20 million per MW including generation assets; Google’s USD 15 billion Visakhapatnam programme includes energy and subsea links (Source: Google). Compute rents give the buyer’s view: IndiaAI offers GPUs at Rs 65 per hour (Source: PIB), about Rs 5.7 lakh per GPU a year at full use.

Which Rules and Policies Shape India AI Data Center Investment?

Five rules shape the USD 608.29 million market: infrastructure status, the 2026 tax holiday, data protection, the IndiaAI Mission and state data center policies.

• Infrastructure status (Union Budget 2022-23): data centers were added to the Harmonized List of Infrastructure, easing long-tenor lending (Source: PIB).
• Union Budget 2026-27: a tax holiday until 2047 for eligible foreign cloud service providers using data center services from India, and a proposed 15% safe-harbour margin on cost for domestic operators serving them (Source: PIB).
• Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025: notified on 14 November 2025 with an 18-month phased compliance period, pulling regulated data and its AI processing onshore (Source: PIB).
• IndiaAI Mission: Rs 10,371.92 crore over five years and more than 38,000 GPUs onboarded by March 2026 (Source: PIB, Lok Sabha reply).
• Uttar Pradesh Data Centre Policy 2021: a 250 MW target with a 100% electricity duty exemption for 10 years and dual-grid power (Source: Invest UP).

Which Segment Leads the India AI Data Center Market, and What Is the Fastest Growing Segment?

AI Inference is the fastest growing India AI data center segment at 38.12% a year to 2035, and Electrical Infrastructure is the largest component with 38.00% of 2025 spend (USD 231.15 million).

By Component: Electrical Infrastructure Leads with 38.00%

Segment	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Electrical Infrastructure	231.15	38.00%	3,569.27	31.48%
Building Shell and Fit-Out	164.24	27.00%	2,181.22	29.52%
Cooling Infrastructure	103.41	17.00%	2,082.08	35.02%
AI Network Fabric	60.83	10.00%	1,090.61	33.46%
Operations Services and Software	48.66	8.00%	991.47	35.18%

Operations Services and Software grows fastest among components at 35.18% as the installed base compounds, and Cooling Infrastructure follows at 35.02%.

By Data Center Type: Hyperscale Self-Build Leads with 42.00%

Segment	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
Hyperscale Self-Build	255.48	42.00%	4,560.74	33.40%
Colocation and Wholesale AI	231.15	38.00%	3,569.27	31.48%
Sovereign and Government AI	72.99	12.00%	1,189.76	32.20%
Enterprise and Edge AI	48.66	8.00%	594.88	28.45%

Colocation and Wholesale AI stays close behind at 38.00%: CtrlS Datacenters (CtrlS) reports over 370 MW of capacity and 4.4 GW of projects in execution backed by up to Rs 7,000 crore from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) (Source: CtrlS), and Nxtra by Airtel has about 300 MW and targets 1 GW (Source: Bharti Airtel). Leased capacity is sized in the India Data Center Colocation Market report.

By Workload: AI Training Leads with 60.00%

Segment	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
AI Training	364.97	60.00%	3,767.57	26.29%
AI Inference	243.32	40.00%	6,147.08	38.12%

AI Training still buys USD 3.77 billion in 2035, but its share falls from 60% to 38%.

DC Exclusive: The India AI Facility Content per MW Model and Component × Operator Matrix

Hyperscale self-builds buy 46.7% of 2025 AI cooling spend in India. This is a modelled estimate by DC Market Insights, built from 4 inputs (new Indian IT MW, AI share of new MW, facility and network content per AI MW, and service spend per installed AI MW, each for 16 years) and checked against the 33 facts in the source ledger. The matrix splits the 2025 market of USD 608.29 million by component and data center type; rows and columns sum to the segment totals above.

Component (USD million, 2025)	Hyperscale Self-Build	Colocation and Wholesale AI	Sovereign and Government AI	Enterprise and Edge AI	Total
Electrical Infrastructure	99.63	85.41	27.21	18.89	231.14
Cooling Infrastructure	48.32	36.02	11.48	7.59	103.41
Building Shell and Fit-Out	63.18	69.21	19.17	12.68	164.24
AI Network Fabric	27.14	21.15	8.09	4.46	60.84
Operations Services and Software	17.20	19.36	7.05	5.05	48.66
Total	255.47	231.15	73.00	48.67	608.29

Colocation and Wholesale AI buys USD 69.21 million of shell and fit-out, more than hyperscalers, because wholesale operators build the shell before tenants specify cooling.

Which Indian Region Leads AI Data Center Spend, and Which Grows Fastest?

West India leads the India AI Data Center Market with 52.00% of 2025 spend (USD 316.31 million), and South India is the fastest-growing region of the India AI Data Center Market at 36.72% a year to 2035, ahead of East India and Central India from small bases.

Region	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
West India	316.31	52.00%	3,965.86	28.77%
South India	182.49	30.00%	4,164.15	36.72%
North India	85.16	14.00%	1,189.76	30.17%
East India	12.17	2.00%	297.44	37.67%
Central India	12.17	2.00%	297.44	37.67%

West India Holds 52.00% Share

The West India AI data center market was USD 316.31 million in 2025 and reaches USD 3.97 billion by 2035 at 28.77%. AWS plans USD 8.3 billion of cloud infrastructure in its Mumbai region in Maharashtra by 2030 (Source: Amazon), and RIL’s 168 MW Jamnagar site serves Meta (Source: RIL).

South India Holds 30.00% Share

The South India AI data center market was USD 182.49 million in 2025 and reaches USD 4.16 billion by 2035 at 36.72%, the fastest of the five regions, because Google’s Visakhapatnam hub broke ground in April 2026 (Source: Google) and STT GDC India is expanding in Chennai (Source: STT GDC India).

North India Holds 14.00% Share

The North India AI data center market was USD 85.16 million in 2025 and reaches USD 1.19 billion by 2035 at 30.17%. Yotta’s 60 MW D2 in Greater Noida (Source: Yotta Data Services) sits under Uttar Pradesh’s data centre policy (Source: Invest UP).

East India Holds 2.00% Share

The East India AI data center market was USD 12.17 million in 2025 and reaches USD 297.44 million by 2035 at 37.67%, led by Kolkata edge and enterprise rooms and Odisha’s first AI-ready campuses.

Central India Holds 2.00% Share

The Central India AI data center market was USD 12.17 million in 2025 and reaches USD 297.44 million by 2035 at 37.67%, led by GPU parks in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh that sell land and power cheaper than Mumbai.

Which Indian States Lead AI Data Center Spend?

Maharashtra leads with USD 279.81 million in 2025, and Andhra Pradesh is the fastest growing state at 70.85% a year, reaching USD 1.29 billion by 2035 on the back of Google’s Visakhapatnam hub.

Rank	State	Region	2025 (USD million)	Share 2025	2035 (USD million)	CAGR 2025-2035
1	Maharashtra	West India	279.81	46.00%	3,271.83	27.88%
2	Tamil Nadu	South India	79.08	13.00%	1,189.76	31.14%
3	Telangana	South India	60.83	10.00%	991.47	32.20%
4	Uttar Pradesh	North India	48.66	8.00%	694.03	30.44%
5	Gujarat	West India	36.50	6.00%	694.03	34.25%
6	Karnataka	South India	30.41	5.00%	495.73	32.20%
7	Haryana	North India	24.33	4.00%	347.01	30.44%
8	Delhi	North India	12.17	2.00%	148.72	28.45%
9	West Bengal	East India	9.12	1.50%	198.29	36.05%
10	Chhattisgarh	Central India	9.12	1.50%	198.29	36.05%
11	Andhra Pradesh	South India	6.08	1.00%	1,288.90	70.85%
12	Odisha	East India	3.04	0.50%	99.15	41.68%

The 12 states hold 98.5% of 2025 spend; Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and other states make up the rest. Among large states, Gujarat grows fastest at 34.25% as Jamnagar scales.

How Could the 2035 India AI Data Center Forecast Change? Three Scenarios

The 2035 India AI Data Center Market ranges from USD 6.71 billion to USD 13.64 billion, with a base case of USD 9.91 billion.

Scenario	2035 size	CAGR 2025-2035	Assumption
Low	USD 6.71 billion	27.13%	Power and equipment limits cut new capacity by 25% from 2027; AI share of new MW 52% in 2035
Base	USD 9.91 billion	32.20%	New Indian IT capacity 1,000 MW in 2030 and 1,250 MW in 2035; AI share 58% in 2035
High	USD 13.64 billion	36.48%	Delivery 30% faster, closer to the JLL 6 GW by 2029 path; AI share 62%

Who Are the Leading India AI Data Center Companies, and What Is Their Market Share?

The leading India AI data center companies are Yotta Data Services, CtrlS, NTT Data (part of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, NTT), STT GDC India and AdaniConneX; DC Market Insights estimates these five held about 45% of 2025 spend as owners or developers, with Yotta the largest at about 11%, based on its mapping of announced AI halls and committed MW.

• Yotta Data Services
• CtrlS Datacenters
• NTT Data
• STT GDC India
• AdaniConneX
• Nxtra by Airtel
• Sify Technologies
• Reliance Industries (Reliance Intelligence)
• Google
• Microsoft
• Amazon Web Services
• Tata Communications
• NVIDIA
• Equinix
• Schneider Electric
• Vertiv

NTT Data has invested USD 3 billion in Indian digital infrastructure over the last decade and plans 400 MW more (Source: NTT Data). Sify Technologies’ data center unit reported cumulative sold capacity of 129 MW in its fiscal year 2025-26 results (Source: Sify filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission). Reliance and NVIDIA agreed to build AI infrastructure in data centers that will expand to 2,000 MW (Source: NVIDIA), and Tata Communications and NVIDIA are developing an AI cloud in India (Source: NVIDIA). Schneider Electric and Vertiv supply much of the electrical and cooling content of these halls.

What Changed in India AI Data Centers in 2026?

Six dated events between February 2026 and August 2026 shaped the USD 946.74 million market.

• In August 2026, the government told the Lok Sabha that installed data center capacity had reached about 1,575 MW, up from 375 MW in 2020. (Source: PIB)
• In August 2026, JLL projected Indian capacity to rise from 1.6 GW in mid-2026 to 6 GW by 2029, needing USD 110 billion of investment. (Source: JLL)
• In June 2026, RIL and Meta agreed to develop a 168 MW AI-enabled data center in Jamnagar, Gujarat. (Source: RIL)
• In June 2026, CtrlS secured up to Rs 7,000 crore from CPP Investments to scale its data center platform. (Source: CtrlS)
• In April 2026, Google broke ground on its USD 15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. (Source: Google)
• In February 2026, Adani committed USD 100 billion to renewable-powered, AI-ready data centers by 2035, and Yotta announced 20,736 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for its D2 facility. (Source: Adani Group; Yotta Data Services)

More country and segment studies are listed under DC Market Insights industries; for all workloads see the India Data Center Market.

How Did DC Market Insights Build the India AI Data Center Market Model? (Methodology)

The model multiplies 60 MW by USD 9.00 million per MW for 2025 and adds USD 68.29 million of installed-base spend. DC Market Insights built the India AI Data Center Market bottom-up: new Indian IT capacity (300 MW in 2025, 1,250 MW in 2035, consistent with 375 MW installed in 2020 and about 1,575 MW in 2026) × AI share (20% to 58%) × facility and network content per AI MW (USD 9.00 million to USD 10.60 million) gives new-build spend, and installed AI capacity (170.7 MW to 4,459.3 MW, with 2% a year retired) × service spend per MW gives installed-base spend. Region and state splits are set for 2025 and 2035, interpolated and normalised so that every split sums to the total every year.

Three bound checks:

• Ceiling 1: cumulative 2026-2029 spend of USD 10.29 billion is 9.4% of the USD 110 billion of data center investment JLL expects India to need by 2029 (Source: JLL), which also covers land, servers and non-AI halls.
• Ceiling 2: the model’s 350 MW of new Indian IT capacity in 2026 is about a quarter of the roughly 1,470 MW a year implied by JLL’s path from 1.6 GW in mid-2026 to 6 GW by 2029 (Source: JLL), and the 91 MW of new AI capacity is 26% of it.
• Floor: 38,000 IndiaAI GPUs (Source: PIB) need at least 46 MW of AI halls, or USD 414.00 million of facility content at USD 9.00 million per MW, below the USD 608.29 million market of 2025.

Full approach: DC Market Insights research methodology.