India, Oct. 23 -- Ask a final-year architecture or engineering student where they see themselves in five years, and the answer is still often "a design firm" or "a site." Both remain valid. But the biggest hiring growth is now elsewhere.

India's data centre capacity stood at 1.6 GW in June 2026 and is projected to reach 6 GW by 2029, requiring about $110 billion in investment. The spending is revealing: $18 billion goes to mechanical, electrical and plumbing infrastructure, against $4 billion for the real estate construction itself. The jobs are therefore concentrated in MEP design, power systems, cooling, and commissioning. Mumbai alone holds over half of India's operational data centre inventory. indias data centre capacity expected to...