{"id":992718,"date":"2026-02-17T08:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992718"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:09:49","slug":"consolidation-wave-looms-data-centres-running-hot-but-bit-players-to-fold-into-big-bytes-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/consolidation-wave-looms-data-centres-running-hot-but-bit-players-to-fold-into-big-bytes-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation wave looms: Data centres running hot, but bit players to fold into big bytes in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The next phase of India&#8217;s data centre expansion could see smaller and single-market operators being acquired by larger players, spurring a wave of consolidation, said industry experts. It comes amid India emerging as one of the world&#8217;s most attractive data centre destinations because of cheap power, rapid capacity build-out and unmatched engineering talent. <\/p>\n<p>While demand remains strong, scale, funding strength and diversified customers will determine who survives in the market, according to experts. Consolidation has not yet begun at scale, but it is likely once the current expansion cycle stabilises, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The next phase of India&#8217;s data centre expansion could see smaller and single-market operators being acquired by larger players, spurring a wave of consolidation, said industry experts. It comes amid India emerging as one of the world&#8217;s most attractive data centre destinations because of cheap power, rapid capacity build-out and unmatched engineering talent. While demand remains strong, scale, funding strength and diversified customers will determine who survives in the market, according to experts. Consolidation has not yet begun at scale, but it is likely once the current expansion cycle stabilises, they said.<\/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-992718","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\/992718","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=992718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}