Can India build a cloud ecosystem to match 12 GW of data centre capacity projected by 2035?
India is entering a defining phase in its digital infrastructure journey. The country generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, creating a growing need for the computing infrastructure required to store, process, and derive value from it. NITI Aayog projects that India’s data centre capacity could expand from around 1.4 GW today to 10–12 GW by 2035, with the share of GPU-enabled capacity rising from 3–4% to 15–20% as AI workloads accelerate.
The opportunity extends beyond infrastructure, with India’s technology-services sector projected to grow from around $265 billion to $750–850 billion by 2035. Yet the scale of this ambition will depend not simply on how much capacity India builds, but on how effectively that infrastructure is translated into accessible, efficient and commercially viable compute.
Capacity is only the first layer
India’s data centre growth is being driven by cloud adoption, digital services, data localisation and the rise of AI. Installed...
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