Data Centre Market in India and Outlook Till 2025

Opportunity Examination for Key Value Chain Players, Power Distribution Companies & Renewable Energy Developers

It is pertinent to note that the data center IT infrastructure investments including total spending on servers, storage, networking, security and virtualization witnessed a growth of approximately 21.4% from 2015 to 2020. Of the IT infra spending, enterprise networking holds the maximum share, followed by servers. Further, within IT infrastructure market in India, spend on servers was estimated to be USD 658 Million during 2015 that hovered around USD 860 Million in 2020.

The data center industry in India attracted an investment of USD 396 Million in 2020 and approximately USD 9 Billion was in the planning stage. As per industry estimates, data centers in India received USD 977 Million of private equity and strategic investments since 2008 of which 40% was infused between Jan-September 2020. From a period, Feb’2021 to March’2021, fresh investments of USD 4.6 Billion have been announced in India’s data center industry.

India Data center Hosting and Colocation market India has been largely dominated by captive data centers with share of colocation increasing over the last decade. From a share of 20% observed in 2010, Colocation data centers presently hold nearly 45% of over all data centers in the country. As per the industry estimates, there are about 126 colocation datacenters in India spread across India spanning across 7.5 Million sq.feet of area with a cumulative IT power capacity above 590 MW.