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Vertiv Expands Italy Manufacturing to Meet Rising AI Data Center Cooling Demand

August 4, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Padua, Italy: Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has announced new investments at its Tognana campus near Padua, Italy, aimed at expanding manufacturing capacity and advanced testing capabilities for data center cooling systems. The expansion comes as demand for AI-ready infrastructure and high-density computing continues to surge worldwide. Vertiv expects the investment to double its chiller … Read more

India data centre capacity to reach 12 GW by 2030: Wood Mackenzie

July 31, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Somewhere between a UPI payment cleared in Bengaluru and a chatbot query answered in Mumbai sits a server rack, humming inside a data centre that likely didn’t exist five years ago. Multiply that rack by thousands, spread it across six states, and you have the outline of what Wood Mackenzie now calls one of Asia-Pacific’s … Read more

HCLTech Is Building Its First AI Data Center — and It’s Betting ₹14,257 Crore on Odisha

July 25, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

The IT major is teaming up with Bengaluru AI startup Sarvam and the Odisha government to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Bhubaneswar, marking HCLTech’s first move from AI services into owning AI compute itself. HCLTech has picked its first AI data center location, and it isn’t Mumbai, Chennai, or Hyderabad — it’s Bhubaneswar. The company … Read more

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Launches Rajasthan’s First High-Performance Data Centre

July 22, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (India) (STT GDC India) is doubling down on India’s digital infrastructure boom with the launch of STT Jaipur 1, the first enterprise-grade colocation data centre in Rajasthan. The new facility positions Jaipur as an emerging destination for AI infrastructure, cloud computing, and enterprise digital transformation, while extending STT GDC India’s … Read more

MGX, AIP and BlackRock’s GIP Complete $40 Billion Acquisition of Aligned Data Centers

July 21, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

In one of the largest private investments in digital infrastructure to date, MGX, the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) have completed the acquisition of 100% equity in Aligned Data Centers from infrastructure funds managed by Macquarie Asset Management and its co-investment partners. The transaction values Aligned Data Centers at … Read more

Anant Raj to Demerge Data Centre Business into Separate Listed Entity to Accelerate Digital Infrastructure Growth

July 21, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Anant Raj Ltd has announced plans to separate its rapidly growing data centre and cloud services business into a dedicated listed entity, marking a strategic move to unlock value and accelerate growth across both its digital infrastructure and real estate businesses. The company’s Board of Directors has approved a composite scheme of arrangement that will … Read more

TCS has acquired two land parcels to support OpenAI’s planned AI infrastructure in India

July 21, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has acquired two strategic land parcels in Andhra Pradesh and Pune as part of efforts to support OpenAI’s planned artificial intelligence infrastructure expansion in India, according to media reports. The acquisitions represent a significant milestone in India’s rapidly evolving AI infrastructure landscape and underscore TCS’ growing focus on hyperscale data centres, … Read more

Madison Air Solutions Raises $2.23 Billion in Landmark IPO to Capitalize on AI Data Centre Boom

July 18, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

New York: Madison Air Solutions (NYSE: MAIR) has raised $2.23 billion through its initial public offering (IPO), making it the largest U.S. industrial IPO since 1999. The offering values the company at $13.2 billion, underscoring growing investor confidence in businesses supporting the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Rather than competing in the AI … Read more

India’s AI Boom Has a Cooling Problem Nobody’s Solved Yet — And It’s Not About Chips or Capital

July 16, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Bengaluru: India’s data centre industry is racing to build AI-ready infrastructure worth billions of dollars, but a critical engineering challenge is rapidly emerging behind the scenes—how to efficiently cool next-generation AI servers without placing unsustainable pressure on the country’s electricity and water resources. As hyperscalers, cloud providers and enterprises accelerate investments in GPU-powered infrastructure, cooling … Read more

HCLTech Enters Full-Stack AI Market with ₹3,500 Crore Investment in AI Data Centres

July 14, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Noida: HCLTech has announced its entry into the rapidly growing full-stack artificial intelligence (AI) market, backed by a planned investment of up to ₹3,500 crore to establish AI data centres in India. The company said the strategic investment will enable it to deliver end-to-end AI infrastructure, cloud, software, and managed services to enterprises and government … Read more

India’s Data Centre Boom: The $120 Billion Bet That Could Make It Asia’s Next Digital Powerhouse

July 13, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

A new KPMG in India report maps how the country is moving from a data-hungry importer to a global data centre hub — and why AI is rewriting the blueprint for every server room in between. For years, India’s relationship with data has had an odd asymmetry: the country generates roughly a fifth of the … Read more

Who’s Running the World’s Data Centers Now? Inside This Quarter’s Biggest Leadership Shake-Up

July 10, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

The data center industry is in the middle of an unprecedented hiring wave, and it’s not just engineers and technicians being snapped up. As AI workloads push power, cooling, and capacity demands to new extremes, operators, vendors, and advisory firms worldwide are racing to bring in executive talent who can navigate the complexity. This quarter … Read more

Dholera Wants to Be the World’s Biggest Data Centre City. Gujarat Just Bet ₹6 Lakh Crore That It Can Pull It Off.

July 10, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Gujarat just did something no other Indian state has: it didn’t just announce incentives for data centres, it announced a city for them. On July 9, 2026, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, flanked by Deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi and Science and Technology Minister Arjun Modhwadia, launched the Viksit Gujarat Data Center Policy 2026-29 at Gandhinagar’s Mahatma … Read more

Can Google and Meta Really Claim ‘AI for Climate’ While Their Own Emissions Soar?

July 10, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Google’s emissions are up 82% since 2019, Microsoft and Meta aren’t far behind, and Big Tech is now signing gas contracts to power AI. Here’s the global data — and what it means for India’s own AI-driven power demand. The Contradiction at the Heart of “AI for Climate” For years, the tech industry has pitched … Read more

Meta to Build $9 Billion AI Data Centre in Canada, Strengthening Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

July 9, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

A rendering of Meta’s new 1GW, AI-optimized data center in Alberta, Canada.

Alberta, Canada: Meta has announced plans to invest approximately $9 billion in its first-ever data centre in Canada, marking a significant milestone in the company’s global artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure expansion strategy. The new 1-gigawatt (GW) facility will be located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and is expected to take two to three years to complete. … Read more

IBM Bets on Flexibility: New z17 and LinuxONE 5 Rack Mount Options Target the Data Center Space Crunch

July 7, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

IBM has announced an expansion of its z17 and LinuxONE 5 systems, and the headline change is about form factor as much as performance: for the first time across its entire Z and LinuxONE portfolio, IBM is offering rack mount configurations alongside its traditional single frame systems. Both options are built on the same flagship … Read more

UP’s ₹2 Lakh Crore Data Centre Bet: Inside the State’s New 2026 Policy — And What India Still Needs to Catch Up

July 7, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

UP Cabinet Clears a New AI-Ready Data Centre Policy Uttar Pradesh just made its biggest digital infrastructure move yet. On Monday, the state Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, approved the Uttar Pradesh Data Center Policy 2026, replacing the earlier 2021 policy that lapsed in January this year. The new policy sets two headline … Read more

China Switches On the World’s First Commercial Underwater Data Center Off Shanghai’s Coast

July 5, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Roughly ten kilometers from Shanghai’s shoreline, a data center now sits on the seabed — and it’s already processing data commercially, marking what appears to be a global first for offshore computing infrastructure. A Giant Structure, Hidden From View The facility weighs close to 2,000 tonnes and stands 32 meters tall, but almost none of … Read more

2 Gigawatts, $80 Billion in Leases: Inside SpaceX’s Quiet Takeover of AI Data Center Infrastructure

July 2, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

Elon Musk built Colossus to train Grok. Instead, it may end up making SpaceX more money than Starlink — by renting out GPUs to the very companies xAI was supposed to be competing with. The Number That Started It All: $150 Million a Month Open-source AI startup Reflection AI has agreed to pay SpaceX $150 … Read more

India’s AI Data Center Boom: How the Global Colocation Race Is Reshaping the Country’s Digital Infrastructure

July 1, 2026 by Ruchi Kumar

A new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, “Colocation data centers: The infrastructure race behind AI,” lays out a striking number: global data center demand could almost triple between 2025 and 2030 — from about 82 gigawatts (GW) to roughly 220 GW. AI alone is expected to drive nearly 70% of that growth, with AI-related demand … Read more