India’s AI-fuelled data centre boom is drawing billion-dollar global bets

India’s data centre industry is entering a new phase of expansion as Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption, cloud demand, and digital infrastructure investments accelerate across the country, according to separate reports by Knight Frank India and KPMG.

Knight Frank said India’s live data centre capacity has crossed 1.6GW as of what time? and is backed by an investment pipeline exceeding $100 billion. KPMG, meanwhile, said the industry’s biggest challenge is no longer demand generation but the ability to build, deploy, and operate increasingly complex infrastructure at scale.