Photo: LiveMintWhy Chennai is losing to Hyderabad in India's data centre race | Today News
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Hyderabad is projected to add twice as much data centre capacity as Chennai by 2030, driven by land and power constraints in established markets.
Hyperscale data facility providers are increasingly favoring alternative locations like Visakhapatnam due to significant power and real estate limitations in Chennai. Meanwhile, projections indicate that Hyderabad will outpace Chennai substantially by the end of the decade, expanding its operational digital infrastructure capacity at twice the rate. These regional shifts highlight changing priorities for large scale tech operations across the country as established metropolitan areas struggle with essential resource availability. Industry growth patterns clearly show that secondary markets are capturing greater attention from major digital infrastructure investors aiming to secure necessary electricity and acreage for future expansion.
Hyperscalers are large companies that provide cloud, networking, and internet services at a massive scale, requiring vast amounts of land and reliable power to operate their data centres.
- •Further investments by hyperscalers in emerging tech hubs like Visakhapatnam
- •Changes in land and power availability in Chennai compared to competing cities