In the backdrop of India’s growth story as a major IT-ITes hub in the last two decades, the Indian data centres industry is now emerging as the next attractive opportunity for investors and developers. The demand for data centres in India is being driven by the need for data storage given the Government’s Digital India and data localization policies, increased data consumption and 5G roll-out which is expected to enable adoption of data intensive technologies such as internet-of-things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). The proliferation of data centres in India has also created growth opportunities in various sectors of the Indian economy, including real estate, manufacturing and renewable energy.
While the draft national data centre policy is yet to be implemented, various Indian states have adopted their respective state data centres policies to attract private investment in this capital and technology intensive sector. In this article, we compare the incentives offered under data centre policies adopted by certain Indian states which have received major investments in the data centre sector.
