Digital Edge DC, the Asia-Pacific data center operator, is reportedly planning a 270 MW data center in Palava, near Mumbai, after acquiring roughly 30-acres of land, though Lodha Group, the developer that sold the plot, has confirmed only the transaction, not the project.
The purchase was reported by The Economic Times, which cited a person familiar with the matter, that put the price for a parcel of land inside the proposed Green Integrated Data Centre Park in Palava, some 45 km northeast of Mumbai at around Rs 10 billion (US$ 104 million). It is said to be one of the largest data center land deals recorded in the region.
Lodha Group confirmed the sale in a filing to the National Stock Exchange of India, stating it does indeed trade in property, but stopped short of confirming the data center development described in the same report.
“We would like to put on record that we are in business of real estate and hence land purchase/tie up (which is our raw material and inventory for us) or its development is routine in nature. The transaction referred to herein is also one of such transaction [sic],” the filing reads.
The deal lands in a state actively courting digital infrastructure. Lodha announced the Green Integrated Data Centre Park with the Maharashtra government in May 2026 where the pair signed a memorandum of understanding. The property firm said that the deal was worth some Rs 300 billion (US$ 3.1 billion) at the time with Amazon and STT Global reportedly moving to set up data centers in the region “in the near future.”
“This will attract global technology players and establish the area as a strategic hub for India’s rapidly expanding data infrastructure, while also ensuring the power needs are met through sustainable resources,” Lodha wrote in a press release issued in May.
If built, the 270 MW campus would be Digital Edge’s second in India and would deepen a pipeline the firm has been funding aggressively. Moreover, the data center would complement Digital Edge’s Navi Mumbai facility, BOM 1, in serving demand for cloud, AI, and hyperscale capacity in India’s largest data center market.
Maharashtra is the leading growth market for data centers in India. As reported by Arizton in March, there were 104 data centers planned to be built in India with over 25 percent of that capacity in the country set to be concentrated in Maharashtra. Local state government reports that Maharashtra is home to 66 percent of India’s data center capacity and Lodha’s latest development could push that figure far higher in the years to come.