Brookfield-Digital Realty JV to invest Rs 2,000 crore in expanding a data center in Mumbai
BAM Digital Realty, a joint venture among Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, will be investing over Rs 2,000 crore to develop a data center with a capacity of 35 MW IT load in Mumbai’s Chandivali locality. The combined platform has acquired 2.15 acres of land in the Mumbai suburb to construct its second data center in India. Upon completion, the data center will bring the firm's total planned capacity in India to 135 MW. This strategic investment in Mumbai builds upon BAM Digital Realty’s initial foray into the Indian market. The organization's first 20 MW greenfield data center (MAA10), on a 100 MW campus in Chennai, is on track for launch at the end of 2023.
“Mumbai continues to be a prominent data center hub reinforced by the continuing rapid growth of the Indian data center company that is fuelling the country's significant digital transformation. As we grow our presence in India and enter the Mumbai market, we are strengthening our mission to provide the highest level of innovation and expertise to our local and global customers,” said Arpit Agrawal, Managing Director, Head of Infrastructure, India & Middle East, Brookfield Infrastructure Group.
BAM Digital Realty’s new site was selected for its proximity to customers and central location in metro Mumbai, to ensure a well-connected facility capable of supporting the growing demand for critical digital infrastructure in this region.
“We are excited to intensify our momentum in India by expanding our footprint into Mumbai. The choice of the strategic location in Chandivali gives local and global customers convenient access to a well-connected facility in the heart of Mumbai. This adds a significant new metro to Digital Realty’s safe and open global data meeting place,” said Serene Nah, Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific, Digital Realty.
Together, data centers in Mumbai and Chennai will deliver an established ecosystem access to both west- and east-bound customers, leveraging Digital Realty’s global data center platform, PlatformDIGITAL. As India vies to become the world’s third largest economy by 2027, digitalization has accelerated. This has led to exponential data growth and in turn is driving significant demand for data center capacity in India, which is expected to reach an installed capacity of around 1,400 MW by the end of 2025.
As India’s financial capital and largest city, Mumbai hosts the country’s principal enterprises across the banking, financial services, digital media, and other industries, and drives demand for nearly 43% of the total data center capacity in India.
Mumbai is India’s primary connectivity hub and leading international web gateway, providing the largest number of subsea cables landing in India. It also offers robust power infrastructure and dense fiber connectivity, critical for the high-power compute workloads that support new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI).
