Description
The Mumbai data centre market has expanded rapidly, driven by the landing of hyperscale cloud providers in a market offering strong fundamentals: a large population base, favourable regulatory policies, a growing enterprise and digital economy, access to subsea cable systems, and increasingly available renewable energy. Mumbai is the hub of India’s financial and digital services ecosystem and serves as a natural entry point for global cloud and platform providers looking to scale in India and across Southeast Asia. Public cloud adoption in India is still building but growing fast, supported by data localization mandates and a thriving ecosystem across fintech, media and e-commerce.
Mumbai is well positioned to capture domestic and regional demand, especially as land and energy constraints impact other markets across Asia-Pacific. Its competitive energy pricing and strong undersea cable connectivity to Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific also support international expansion strategies for cloud, AI and CDN platforms.
However, challenges persist. Land acquisition in key clusters like Navi Mumbai and Chandivali has become more competitive, while infrastructure constraints — particularly around power delivery timelines and flood risk mitigation — can delay deployment. The permitting environment is improving but remains fragmented across local jurisdictions. In some cases, supply chain bottlenecks and evolving environmental requirements have pushed back delivery timelines, causing a backlog of planned capacity.
Despite these headwinds, demand remains resilient and has significant upside potential. Hyperscalers are securing long-term commitments, and private equity-backed developers, telcos and real estate conglomerates are actively building or entering through partnerships. Mumbai has also attracted new entrants with greenfield builds and high-density, AI-optimized designs. Some projects, however, remain in speculative phases and may struggle to come online without anchor tenants or experienced delivery teams.
Mumbai is emerging as a tier one data centre market in Asia-Pacific and will remain the leading Indian hub for cloud, content and enterprise workloads. Built-out capacity is expected to more than triple between the end of 2024 and 2030, crossing the 1GW threshold by 2026. The wider Maharashtra market — including Navi Mumbai, Panvel and Pune — is evolving as a significant hyperscale corridor, providing options for overflow and phased expansion.
This report is an excellent resource for any service provider, investor or enterprise end user looking to understand and project the data centre market in Mumbai or find a service provider. The methodology applied continues to be the most robust in the industry. The supporting dataset is built from comprehensive asset-level tracking, capacity is measured purely on a power basis, and all the metrics are split along retail and hyperscale lines, and inventory aggregated in multiple tiers according to build status, absorption rates and maximum capacity levels. We have also delineated even narrower market segments, separating retail into enterprise retail and enterprise retail+, and split hyperscale into core-hyperscale and edge-hyperscale categories. Hyperscale self-builds are also tracked and a key component of the overall analysis. Hyperscale cloud nodes and on-ramps
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