Tatas to build Rs 70,000-cr AI data centre in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: HyperVault, a subsidiary of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has announced the development of a large-scale AI data centre campus of up to 1GW capacity spread across over 250 acres in Hyderabad. HyperVault and its partners are expected to invest up to Rs 70,000 crore to build and manage this infrastructure that will support frontier AI companies and hyperscalers. The project is estimated to create 7,000 jobs, both direct and indirect.

Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, in a meeting with officials from TCS’ HyperVault, called the project ‘historic’ not just for Telangana, but for India.

“This establishes that Hyderabad is now at the forefront of the global AI revolution with a strong focus on infrastructure. This decade is one of Artificial Intelligence.

Access to AI models and compute is fast-becoming public infrastructure and having this compute reside in Telangana gives us an advantage,” he observed.

The campus is expected to rank amongst the most advanced and largest AI infrastructure campuses in India. The campus will also leverage green energy and water-neutral design principles as part of the build-out. This reinforces Telangana’s position as a strategic hub for artificial intelligence and advanced digital infrastructure. State IT & Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu, who led the negotiations in record speed to script a partnership for a milestone agreement, said, “We tell the investors and corporations across the world, Telangana Means Business. We move at speed and with clarity of process that matches the expectations of the tech and corporate world.”

Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said Telangana beat as many as five competing states to bag this project for the data centre. K Krithivasan, CEO of TCS, said, “HyperVault advances TCS’ Infrastructure-to-Intelligence strategy by bringing together AI-ready infrastructure with our cloud, engineering, enterprise transformation and AI capabilities. Hyderabad offers the scale, talent and ecosystem to serve global customers."

Deepesh Nanda, MD and CEO of HyperVault AI Data Center Limited, said, “We are building infrastructure for where AI is going: higher density, liquid cooling, larger power blocks and faster deployment. Hyderabad gives us the foundation to build that at scale for frontier AI companies and hyperscalers.”

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