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India Data Center Report 7-8-2021
India Data Center Report 7-8-2021
FOR DATA
CENTRES?
INDIA
July 2021
India Data Centre Report Cushman & Wakefield
INDIA AS A
TOTAL CAPACITY DATA CENTRE
FOR INDIA STAR FOR THE
655 MW (Top 7 Cities)
NEXT DECADE
The investment explosion by major services from China “The key trio of
across the Indian data centre such as Tencent and Alibaba, main hyperscale
market over the past two both of which view India as an
services (Amazon
IT LOAD years was long overdue, long
expected, and deeply needed
important growth market as
they scale across Asia. Each of
Web Services,
437 MW
Microsoft Azure,
all in one, with multiple primary these services provide attractive
markets created at one time clients for the increasing array
Google Cloud) are
and the rapid development of operators, with ever-larger
each present in
of campus sizes found in the leases being signed as these multiple cities, with
most established global cities. firms battle for local market plans for further
(Top 7 Cities) Combining the acumen and
expectations of the largest
share. Google and Microsoft
have both intriguingly chosen
regional development
as ever-larger deals are
global cloud services and to partner with Reliance Jio for signed for corporate
hundreds of billions of rupees new data centre development, and government
in investment, India is moving with Google placing a business”
straight to the highest level of $4.5 billion investment into the
sophistication with a global hub telecom firm.
in Mumbai and major clusters
coming in Noida and Chennai. A diverse array of new operators
This interest will drive market have altered the Indian data
size from the current 650 MW centre landscape, bringing fresh
to well over 1 GW over the ideas and scalability across
next five years, with further cities. The country has long
GAUTAM SARAF TODD OLSON
investment coming thereafter, been home to international
Managing Director, Mumbai and Managing Director, Japan & Korea,
New Businesses Head of Asia Pacific as less than half the country players so the influx of capital
+91 226 771 5555 Data Centre Practice Group currently has access to the is not novel; Singapore’s STT
gautam.saraf@ap.cushwake.com +81 33 596 7050
todd.olson@ap.cushwake.com internet. The key trio of main has long been the largest
hyperscale services (Amazon operator in India with roughly a
Web Services, Microsoft Azure, quarter of capacity, and Japan’s
Google Cloud) are each present telecommunications giant NTT
in multiple cities, with plans for follows with ten locations of
further regional development their own.
KEVIN IMBODEN VIVEK DAHIYA
as ever-larger deals are signed
Senior Research Manager, Data Centre Managing Director, India Lead- Data
Insights, Global Research Centres, New Initiatives for corporate and government
+1 408 436 3622 +91 124 469 5555 business. These are joined
kevin.imboden@cushwake.com vivek.dahiya@cushwake.com
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Bengaluru
KEY INDICATORS:
Long considered the IT hub and Whitefield (Nxtra Data,
of India, it is only natural that Evoque, STT, NTT also) each with Total Capacity
Bengaluru would enjoy a major a full complement befitting the 162 MW
data centre presence, boasting power of the IT sector in both
one quarter of the overall areas. With no large projects Percentage Share*
capacity across the seven key
markets. Two clusters have
immediately on the horizon,
it remains to be seen if newly
25%
emerged among the many created workloads move to Total Sft
facilities present, with Electronic newer campuses in smaller cities
City (ESDS, Sungard, Sify, NTT) across the country.
1.74 mn
6 *This figure is the city-wise percentage share of *This figure is the city-wise percentage share of 7
existing pan India colocation data centre capacity existing pan India colocation data centre capacity
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Chennai Pune
The convenient coastal location
of Chennai provides the market
Chennai is thus projected to
leapfrog other markets to the
“The convenient Pune is an edge data centre
market, with national players
with the second-highest number second-largest across India, with coastal location Nxtra, STT, and Web Werks
of undersea cables after Mumbai Yotta, CtrlS, Princeton Digital, joined by an array of local web
in-country, and consequently STT, and NxtGen all launching
of Chennai hosting firms. Microsoft Azure
means that Amazon Web new campuses in coming months provides the has proven an early adopter
Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and adding to local capacity. locally, forming their Central
Cloud, and Tencent all have local market with the India region in Pune in 2015
KEY INDICATORS:
Total Capacity
deployments in some form. The
KEY INDICATORS: second-highest and continuing to add services
five current cables will shortly thereafter building to a full
32 MW “Pune is an
be joined by the MIST system in Total Capacity number of availability zone this year. This
2022, connecting both Mumbai
57 MW investment avoids the more Percentage Share* edge data
undersea cables
and Chennai to Singapore and standard Mumbai-Chennai
5% centre market”
Ngwe Saung in Myanmar, thus Percentage Share* after Mumbai convention for major cloud
providing additional linkage to deployments, and one that could
the busy Southeast Asia region.
8% in-country” assist in scaling Pune market to
Total Sft
0.92 mn
“The eventual
240 MW site will
create a regional
hyperscale
Hyderabad Kolkata option”
As a city with a strong IT This is only the second region KEY INDICATORS: Kolkata is just beginning its in coordination with parent KEY INDICATORS:
presence, Hyderabad to date in-country for the cloud giant data centre journey, with big company Hiranandani Group. The
Total Capacity Total Capacity
has been a global tertiary-sized after Mumbai, and the company operators such as Sify and eventual 240 MW site will create
market with occasional key plans to spend $2.8 billion to 38 MW STT having small deployments a regional hyperscale option, 5 MW
players such as STT, Sify, and launch by mid-2022. Major cloud locally to serve the city. adding further possibilities
CtrlS. This will likely be changing services tend to beget others, Percentage Share* Yotta Infrastructure provided Percentage Share*
beyond the current Amazon Web
shortly, as Amazon acquired three so it remains to be seen if 6% some exciting news early in Services edge location. 1%
large sites in and around the the ecosystem will grow 2021, securing an ex-auto
area in November with plans to rapidly in Hyderabad. Total Sft manufacturing site for an Total Sft
construct a full region for AWS.
0.71 mn upcoming data centre campus
0.07 mn
8 *This figure is the city-wise percentage share of *This figure is the city-wise percentage share of 9
existing pan India colocation data centre capacity existing pan India colocation data centre capacity
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STRONG BACKING
PEOPLE/MW FOR LOCAL OPERATORS
Local data centre firms have received a considerable amount of financial backing from global investment
City Population MW People/MW
groups as each has looked at India as an attractive growth market. This backing will enable each firm
Kolkata 14,617,882 5 2,923,576 to scale across new markets and expand currently operating campuses to respond to local demand.
Investment has rapidly accelerated over the past two years, with continued rumors of further new players
Delhi-NCR 26,454,000 72 367,417 coming soon.
Hyderabad 9,700,000 38 255,263
Mumbai 20,748,395 289 71,794 Chindata and Bridge Data Centres merged in 2019,
with both ventures backed by Bain Capital
Bengaluru 10,456,000 162 64,543
Equinix signed to acquire GPX Mumbai operations in
Beijing 21,893,095 359 60,984 2020 for $161 million
Tokyo 37,468,000 735 50,977 Formed joint venture to expand in three markets
and enter three new markets, with Iron Mountain
contributing $150 million
Shanghai 24,870,895 585 42,514
Go4hosting serves as the web hosting arm of cyfuture
Chicago 9,901,711 400 24,754 providing a variety of services to major corporations
London 14,257,962 660 21,603 ESDS has received minority investments from Canbank
locally and GEF Capital from Brazil
Dallas 7,673,305 422 18,183
Carlyle took a 25% interest in the Bharti Airtel-owned
Silicon Valley 9,660,000 541 17,856 Nxtra Data in 2020 at an investment amount of
$235 milion
Frankfurt 5,604,523 377 14,866 Evoque acquired by Brookfield as a spin-off from AT&T
for $1.1 billion in 2019
Singapore 5,703,600 410 13,911
Northern Virginia 9,814,928 1619 6,062 Cyquator serves as the web hosting arm of media
company Essel Group
Food for thought Initial $60 million funding round in 2008 from Pioneer,
IDBI, and Sculptor (then Och-Ziff)
While data centre capacity is megawatt of roughly 15,000 to
constructed for a multitude of 25,000 people. By this metric, Data First acts as the web hosting arm of Cloud Planet
reasons (see our Global Market every major metropolitan area in
Comparison), local population India has a long way to go before
can be an interesting proxy to reaching maturity, particularly as Ebix acquired Trimax for $10 million in 2019
determine potential growth of there are several large cities
a local market. Several long- that have yet to develop any
Formed a joint venture in 2021 to build sites in
established metro areas around data centre ecosystem at all. five cities
the world have a person-per-
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NATIONWIDE
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CLOUD
PENETRATION As with most large countries
worldwide, the major cloud
services are competing for
market share across India
New Delhi
with a mix of full and edge
Full Edge regions depending on initial
and continued take-up among
large corporations and
government entities. Amazon
Web Services most recently
acquired three sites in the
Hyderabad area, and Google
Cloud and Microsoft Azure
Mumbai have signed agreements with
Reliance Jio to build large
Full
campuses across the country.
INDIA
Major Cloud Services:
Kolkata
Edge
Hyderabad
Pune Edge
Full
Chennai
Full
Bangalore
Edge
Edge
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