2 Key Data Centre Stories for Indian Professionals
According to Press Monitor's tracking of Indian publications, today's data centre intelligence from print media monitoring reveals the news on data centres shaping infrastructure, investment, and sustainability. This press review combines media monitoring and media intelligence to highlight the 2 most significant developments.
1. India Adds 387 MW Data Centres
A front-page report in Business Standard says the Indian government has assured that water consumption by new data centres will be negligible, citing advanced closed‑loop cooling systems. The government highlighted the Visakhapatnam hubs, tax incentives until 2047, and India’s 2025 addition of 387 megawatts of data‑centre capacity, with AWS, Microsoft and Google committing roughly 67.5 billion rupees to the sector. The sector’s investment pipeline stands at about 90 billion rupees, nearly six times the 13‑15 billion rupees invested between 2020 and 2024.
Why it matters: India's data centre capacity grew by 387 megawatts in 2025, with global hyperscalers committing billions. This signals a structural shift in how Indian print media monitors infrastructure investment.
Key detail: AWS, Microsoft, and Google have committed roughly 67.5 billion rupees, with the investment pipeline at 90 billion rupees — nearly six times the 13-15 billion invested between 2020 and 2024. The government assured that water consumption by new data centres will be negligible through advanced closed-loop cooling, with Visakhapatnam hubs and tax incentives until 2047.
Source: Business Standard, by Aashish Aryan, 15 September
Next step: Monitor whether the 90-billion-rupee pipeline translates to actual construction milestones and job creation in the next fiscal year.
2. Data Centres Require Reliable Sewage Supply
A front-page report in Deccan Herald says treated wastewater can satisfy a significant portion of India’s data centre cooling requirements, provided municipalities establish reliable sewage systems and consistent water quality. Although cities like Bengaluru are expanding treatment infrastructure via the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, sustainable reuse depends on complete sewerage coverage, professional plant operation, robust monitoring, and separating domestic sewage from industrial effluents. With dependable contracts and pricing mechanisms, data centres can become anchor users of secondary-treated water, improving urban water bodies and easing freshwater pressure across digital growth hubs.
Why it matters: Sustainable cooling is a make-or-break factor for data centre expansion, and print media monitoring reveals that sewage infrastructure is the overlooked bottleneck.
Key detail: Treated wastewater can satisfy a significant portion of cooling needs, but only if municipalities establish reliable sewage systems. Bengaluru's Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board is expanding treatment infrastructure, yet complete sewerage coverage remains the prerequisite for data centres to become anchor users of secondary-treated water, improving urban water bodies and easing freshwater pressure across digital growth hubs.
Source: Deccan Herald, by Priyanka Jamwal, Bengaluru
Next step: Watch for municipal policy updates that could unlock wastewater contracts for data centre operators across digital growth hubs.
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