{"id":1001382,"date":"2026-04-06T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001382"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:30:44","slug":"nxtra-fundraise-sharpens-airtels-pivot-beyond-telecom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/06\/nxtra-fundraise-sharpens-airtels-pivot-beyond-telecom\/","title":{"rendered":"Nxtra fundraise sharpens Airtel\u2019s pivot beyond telecom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s $1 billion fundraise for its data centre arm Nxtra marks a sharper pivot towards a multi-engine growth strategy, with digital infrastructure emerging as a central pillar alongside its core telecom operations, analysts said. <\/p>\n<p>The capital infusion, led by global investors and backed by Airtel, will fund a significant expansion in Nxtra\u2019s capacity from around 300 MW to 1 GW. The scale-up is aimed at capturing a larger share of India\u2019s rapidly growing data centre market, which is being driven by rising demand from cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads and enterprise digitisation, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel\u2019s $1 billion fundraise for its data centre arm Nxtra marks a sharper pivot towards a multi-engine growth strategy, with digital infrastructure emerging as a central pillar alongside its core telecom operations, analysts said. The capital infusion, led by global investors and backed by Airtel, will fund a significant expansion in Nxtra\u2019s capacity from around 300 MW to 1 GW. The scale-up is aimed at capturing a larger share of India\u2019s rapidly growing data centre market, which is being driven by rising demand from cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads and enterprise digitisation, they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}