Unveiling the best of India's digital infrastructure industry
On November 7, w.media is coming back with the fifth edition of Mumbai Cloud & Datacenter Convention (CDC) and South Asia Awards. The day-long event will be held at Hotel Sahara Star, Mumbai, and will bring together industry experts and thought leaders, including C-level executives, digital infrastructure professionals including architects, engineers and consultants (AECs), key buyers, decision makers, data center owners and operators from across India.
The Convention will culminate in a glittering awards ceremony where w.media will honour excellence and expertise of data center providers and industry professionals from South Asia across three key areas: People, Planet and Projects.
Before we share what you can expect from Mumbai CDC, let us quickly take a look at Mumbai itself - specifically, its digital infrastructure landscape.
What makes Mumbai special?
India's data center industry is poised for explosive growth, with capacity projected to surge 77 percent by 2027, reaching a staggering 1.8 GW, according to a JLL report titled Indian Data Centre Market Dynamics.
As the largest data center market in India, Mumbai and its adjacent areas like Navi Mumbai, and the Bhiwandi-Taloja and Thane-Belapur industrial belts, account for half of the country’s data center capacity. Mumbai is at the heart of India’s digital transformation story poised to account for nearly 800 MW of capacity by the end of this year.
Today, Mumbai is home to over three dozen data centers by national and internal players such as Amazon Web Services, Adani ConneX, Colt Data Services, CtrlS Datacenters, Equinix, Nxtra by Airtel, NTT, Reliance, Sify Infinit Spaces, ST Telemedia Global Data Centers, and Yotta Data Services, among others.
A recent report by Cushman & Wakefield has listed Mumbai as a “powerhouse” data center market alongside Tokyo, Beijing, Johor, Sydney and Shanghai. The report titled Asia Pacific Data Center H1 2025 Update finds that Mumbai maintains its position as “India’s largest and most dynamic data center market, demonstrating sustained momentum in both operational capacity and development activity.” It further finds that over the past six months, the city added approximately 52MW to its live data center stock. “With around 180MW of the 337MW currently under construction slated for completion within the next six months, Mumbai’s total operational capacity is projected to reach nearly 800MW by the end of 2025 – provided developments proceed as scheduled.”
Meanwhile, a recent report by Knight Frank, has named Mumbai as a “Momentum Market” showcasing how it is not only the largest data center market in India, it is also still growing, with new facilities being built not only in the main city, but also in its suburbs and adjacent areas. Knight Frank’s Global Data Centers Report published earlier this year finds that large-scale colocation deals are driving the expansion of Mumbai’s availability zones (AZs).
This is in line with findings of other prominent industry watchers as well. For example, CBRE’s Asia Pacific Data Centers Trends & Opportunities Report 2025 found that “expansion by foreign hyperscale cloud companies and investors is fueling supply growth in Mumbai,” and that as of end 2024, live IT capacity in Mumbai stood at 667 MW with another 635 MW under construction.
Similarly, JLL’s report titled India Data Center Market Dynamics also found that there was a sharp 51 percent year-on-year rise in demand in H2 2024 of about 122 MW across India, which was met with supply. Mumbai accounted for nearly half the supply during this period.
Another recent report titled The digital backbone: Data center growth prospects in India by Colliers also found that “At the city level, Mumbai continued to account for the majority of the DC capacity with 41 percent share,” and that Mumbai drove 44 percent of data center capacity additions since 2020.
