{"id":1038522,"date":"2026-09-25T08:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038522"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T03:11:51","slug":"the-new-builders-powering-up-the-data-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/25\/the-new-builders-powering-up-the-data-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"The new builders: Powering up the data decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Darshan Hiranandani, running the family\u2019s sprawling real estate empire would have been the easy way out. But the chairman and co-founder of Yotta has an appetite for bigger things. Hiranandani is investing billions \u2014 $2-2.5 billion in the next few months alone \u2014 in physical data centres, cashing in on India\u2019s talent, cost efficiencies and affordable blended power. His firm, he says, has adequate capacity in good locations that can scale up to 2 GW. And he is convinced the data centre play will soon dwarf the group\u2019s other businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Darshan Hiranandani, running the family\u2019s sprawling real estate empire would have been the easy way out. But the chairman and co-founder of Yotta has an appetite for bigger things. Hiranandani is investing billions \u2014 $2-2.5 billion in the next few months alone \u2014 in physical data centres, cashing in on India\u2019s talent, cost efficiencies and affordable blended power. His firm, he says, has adequate capacity in good locations that can scale up to 2 GW. And he is convinced the data centre play will soon dwarf the group\u2019s other businesses.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038522","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=1038522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038544,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038522\/revisions\/1038544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}