India, May 6 -- Equinix recently launched the MB3, a state-of-the-art data center in Chandivali, Mumbai. Located adjacent to MB2, it will provide more than 5,475 cabinets.

Manoj Paul, MD, Equinix India, tells us more. Excerpts from an interview:

DQ: What is the purpose behind this new data center in Mumbai?

Manoj Paul: MB3 has been built at a time when AI adoption, cloud migration, data localization requirements, and the rapid expansion of digital services are significantly increasing demand for secure, high-density, and globally interconnected infrastructure in India.

The facility is purpose-built to ensure that enterprises can deploy AI closer to their data, their cloud environments, and their end users, while staying fully complian...