- Crisil estimates that by 2025–26, there will be an investment of Rs 45,000 crore
Investments are pouring into data centres in the country. By the end of the financial year 2025–26, investments of Rs. 45,000 crore will be made, predicts Crisil. It explained that the demand for data centres is increasing as large companies increasingly adopt cloud solutions. Also, the demand for data centres has increased due to the increasing use of OTTs. Crisil revealed that mobile data traffic has grown by 45 percent annually in the last five years.
It explained that with the newly introduced 5G services, data usage among retail users will further expand, and the need for data centres to store the generated data will also increase. The installed capacity of Indian data centres, which is currently 780 MW, is expected to reach 1,700 MW by March 2026, for which Rs. 45,000 crore will be required. It is estimated that about one-third of the new investments will be in the financial capital of Mumbai, while the rest will be in Hyderabad, Chennai, Delhi, and Pune.
