Hyderabad leads emergence of India’s new data centre hubs

Mint - Sep 17, 2026

By end-2030, Hyderabad and other emerging hubs are expected to see a six-fold rise in data centre capacity to 1.1 gigawatts (GW),  implying an annualized growth of 58%.

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