{"id":948550,"date":"2025-07-22T08:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948550"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:14:33","slug":"small-towns-big-compute-data-centre-investors-look-beyond-indias-metros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/22\/small-towns-big-compute-data-centre-investors-look-beyond-indias-metros\/","title":{"rendered":"Small towns, big compute: Data centre investors look beyond India&#8217;s metros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high energy demands of AI chips are pushing data centre investors to look beyond India\u2019s metro hubs and tap into the country\u2019s hinterland.<\/p>\n<p>Sify Technologies, CtrlS Datacenters, ESDS Software Solutions, RackBank and others are shifting focus from traditional locations such as Mumbai, Chennai and Noida. Instead, cities like Nagpur, Raipur, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Kochi are emerging as attractive alternatives offering better returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high energy demands of AI chips are pushing data centre investors to look beyond India\u2019s metro hubs and tap into the country\u2019s hinterland. Sify Technologies, CtrlS Datacenters, ESDS Software Solutions, RackBank and others are shifting focus from traditional locations such as Mumbai, Chennai and Noida. Instead, cities like Nagpur, Raipur, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Kochi are emerging as attractive alternatives offering better returns.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948550","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=948550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}