Bengaluru, Sept. 23 -- Lumina CloudInfra, the data centre platform of global asset manager Blackstone Group, has bought two adjacent land parcels in suburban Mumbai's Chandivali area for Rs.475 crore to build two data centre units of 30MW each.

Lumina has acquired the 2.04 acre and 1.75 acre land parcels from Prasoon Spaces LLP and Chawla Brothers LLP, respectively. The registration of the plots was done on 19 September, as per documents accessed by CRE Matrix, a real estate data analytics firm.

In 2022, Blackstone Group forayed into the data centre business in Asia with a planned capacity of 600 megawatt (MW) across hyperscale data centres in India. The New York-based investor set up Lumina CloudInfra, owned and managed by Blackstone's...