BAM Digital Realty's Rs 20 bn investment for Mumbai data centre

15 Jun 2023 CW Team

BAM Digital Realty, a joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and Digital Realty, announced that they had acquired 2.15 acre of land in Chandivali, Mumbai. This acquisition was made to build their second data centre in India.

The facility's completion is expected to require an investment of more than Rs 20 billion. Once finished, the data centre will provide a capacity of 35 megawatts (MW) of IT load. This expansion will increase the company's planned capacity in India to a total of 135 MW.

Arpit Agrawal, the managing director and head of infrastructure for India & Middle East at Brookfield Infrastructure Group, expressed that this move strengthens their mission to provide the highest level of innovation and expertise to their local and global customers as they expand their presence in India and enter the Mumbai market.

BAM Digital Realty highlighted that their first 20 MW greenfield data centre, MAA10, situated on a 100 MW campus in Chennai, is progressing as planned and is expected to be launched by the end of 2023. The two data centres in Mumbai and Chennai will collectively offer ecosystem access to customers.

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