India may need additional 50 mn sqft real estate for data centres by 2030: Deloitte report

India may need an additional 45-50 million square feet of real estate and 40-45 terawatt-hours (TWH) of incremental power for data centres by 2030, to keep pace with the surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI), according to Deloitte. Deloitte, in a report titled “Attracting AI Data Centre Infrastructure Investment in India”, highlighted India’s cost advantages, renewable energy focus, and strategic location but warned that the country’s emergence as a global AI hub hinges on bridging critical infrastructure, talent, and policy gaps.