India, March 6 -- India is entering a defining phase in its digital evolution. With the government accelerating plans to position the nation as a global data hub, the country's data centre footprint is expanding at an accelerated rate. According to CBRE, India's total operational data-centre (DC) capacity has recently crossed the 1.5 gigawatt (GW) threshold. That capacity boom is driven not just by legacy workloads but by the ascent of AI, cloud adoption, data localisation mandates, and surging data consumption.

With investments flowing in, CBRE tracks nearly USD 60 billion invested between 2019 and 2024 alone. Further, the firm estimates that total investment commitments will exceed USD 100 billion by 2027. This expansion is not evenly ...