Asia-Pacific’s (APAC) data centre pipeline continues to expand at pace, with the region’s development pipeline reaching 26.5 gigawatts (GW). According to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest market update, India is steadily strengthening its position in that growth story. Led by Mumbai, the operational capacity has increased 31
HCLTech is preparing to establish its first owned data centre in India, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The location chosen for a new artificial intelligence (AI)-ready facility will also house a Global Development Centre (GDC). The proposed project, valued at around ₹730 crore, marks the IT services company’s
India’s data centre industry is entering a major expansion phase, with installed capacity expected to rise more than fourfold by 2030, according to a report by Rubix Data Sciences. The country’s installed data centre capacity is projected to grow from 1.5 GW in 2025 to 6.5
Bharti Airtel is preparing for its next phase of expansion by looking beyond traditional telecom services, with chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal identifying financial services, data centres and cloud as the company’s biggest future growth opportunities. The strategy, outlined in Airtel’s latest annual report, follows the company’s
A fire at a third-party data centre in Delhi caused network issues for Google Cloud customers in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and nearby areas, the company stated. According to Google Cloud, the fire took place late on June 9 and led to an emergency power shutdown
AirTrunk, the Australian data centre company, has taken a key step towards building its proposed ₹2 lakh crore data centre project in Maharashtra. The company has received a letter of intent for land allotment at the Raigad Pen Growth Centre, also known as Orange City. Read
Google and Blackstone have joined hands to build a new AI cloud infrastructure company. The project will use Google’s custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to offer AI computing services to businesses. The two companies want to compete with Nvidia in the fast-growing AI market. The
Perplexity AI has introduced a new tool called Personal Computer, expanding its push into agent-driven productivity software. The application is currently available for Mac users and builds on the multi-model orchestration system the company rolled out earlier this year with Perplexity Computer. A more hands-on AI
The Centre has migrated approximately 16.68 lakh official email accounts to a cloud-based platform operated by Zoho, with total spending reaching Rs 180.10 crore so far, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) informed the Lok Sabha on April 1. The transition has been carried
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while presenting the Union Budget 2026–27 live in Parliament, announced a major policy push aimed at accelerating the growth of information technology and artificial intelligence in India, unveiling a tax holiday until 2047 for companies offering cloud services through data centres