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).
“Currently, Mumbai has three AZs, but their footprint is growing with deployments spreading from Airoli and Juinagar to Panvel,” says the report. It points to Amazon Web Services (AWS), that “has undertaken only a few self-build projects”, and is “leasing large amounts of capacity from third-party operators.” It finds that, “This approach has made Mumbai one of the most competitive leasing markets in APAC.”
It further finds that because the competition among colocation providers has intensified, “Operators must design their facilities to meet hyperscaler demands, focusing on scalability, energy efficiency, and high-density configurations.” The report also found that live IT capacity in Mumbai stood at 532 MW in 2024, and is expected to touch 672 MW by the end of 2025. It further predicts that this figure could go as high as 883 by the end of 2026.
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 majority of the DC capacity with 41 percent share,” and that Mumbai drove 44 percent of data center capacity additions since 2020.
