{"id":1038879,"date":"2026-09-26T09:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038879"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:58:29","slug":"indias-data-centre-allure-costs-at-least-a-third-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/26\/indias-data-centre-allure-costs-at-least-a-third-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s data-centre allure costs at least a third lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is emerging as one of the lower-cost markets for building large data centres, as the global race to expand computing capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) pushes technology companies to look for cheaper locations. <\/p>\n<p>Construction of a data centre in India costs about $6 million to $7 million per megawatt (MW), compared with roughly $10 million to $14 million per MW in the US and Europe, according to Nomura. The comparison excludes land and computing equipment. Nomura, citing JLL data, said Indian construction costs are about 30\u201350% lower than developed Asia-Pacific and Western markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is emerging as one of the lower-cost markets for building large data centres, as the global race to expand computing capacity for artificial intelligence (AI) pushes technology companies to look for cheaper locations. Construction of a data centre in India costs about $6 million to $7 million per megawatt (MW), compared with roughly $10 million to $14 million per MW in the US and Europe, according to Nomura. The comparison excludes land and computing equipment. Nomura, citing JLL data, said Indian construction costs are about 30\u201350% lower than developed Asia-Pacific and Western markets.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038879","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=1038879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038895,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038879\/revisions\/1038895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}