Mumbai, April 14 -- Amazon Data Services India is set to invest nearly Rs.4,000 crore to establish a data center on an 49-acres plot near Taloja. For this, the company has applied to the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) for an environmental clearance. In the application made on April 3, the Indian arm of Amazon stated that the area of the plot is 197,692 sq.m (48.85 acres) and has a total built-up construction area of 393,937.97 sq.m available. Amazon plans to construct six buildings, of which four will be seven-storeyed buildings used as date centres. The other two shorter structures will be store for the water and electrical needs of the data centres. Once operational, the centre will need 473 Mega Watt of electricity per day. Reportedly, the company plans to scale up capacity in India to up to 3 Giga Watts (GW). To prevent the servers from overheating, the centre is likely to have a cooling system that evaporates water to dissipate heat. This will generate 8 kiloliters of mineral rich wastewater which is discharged to avoid damaging equipment. Amazon's plot near Taloja was bought in November 2024 from Macrotech Developers for Rs.450 crore. In August 2023, Amazon had leased 174,000 sq.ft of land from Larsen & Toubro in Powai and 5.5 acres in June 2022 for the same purposes. The global data centre market is expanding due to the rapid growth of cloud computing, AI, and data-intensive technologies. Amid this, India is emerging as a key hub in the Asia-Pacific region. An email from HT to Amazon India to understand the planned capacity installation remained unanswered....