Top Data Centre Markets in APAC: Hyderabad, Chennai, and New Delhi

17 Nov 2022 CW Team

The Asia-Pacific region's leading data center markets include Hyderabad, Chennai, and New Delhi.

The total supply in these regions increased from just under 700 MW five years ago to over 3,000 MW as of this writing, a 300 per cent increase.

According to Knight Frank, "nearly 600MW of new IT capacity has been added in the first three quarters of 2022 alone due to an increasing tendency towards greater localisation of data centre infrastructure."

Melbourne, Jakarta, and Osaka stand out among other markets in APAC; each currently records more than half a gigawatt of total IT supply.

Melbourne has become as a significant data centre market in recent years, with renewed interest from local and regional operators prepared to add about

With several large hyper-scale cloud service providers pushing significant plans for self-builds in the city, Jakarta has over 400MW committed or under development.

Osaka is growing as a rival data centre market to Tokyo, with a live IT capacity that exceeds 250MW and more than 250MW planned.

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