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STT GDC Kolkata New Town data center

New Town, Kolkata, West Bengal, India · Kolkata market · location approximate to district level

STT GDC Kolkata New Town is a data center project in New Town, Kolkata, India, operated by STT GDC India. It is operational. It is planned for 25 MW of IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 1 April 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 2 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
25 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
STT GDC India
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Verified

Where it sits

Kolkata holds 4 active projects with 150 MW of planned IT load between them, and STT GDC Kolkata New Town ranks 4th by planned capacity. Of those, 3 are operational and 1 is under construction. Published colocation vacancy in Kolkata was 17% as of June 2025. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.

STT GDC has 8 others in India and 15 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including STT GDC Pune campus (Dighi), STT Chennai Ambattur campus (Chennai 2, 3 and 4) and STT GDC Palava campus. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as operational on 1 April 2025. The money on record is INR 4.5bn (about US$53m) as of April 2025, the announced investment.

The US export control position for advanced AI chips in India, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced”. ArusGrid holds 1 public source for this project, the latest dated 1 April 2025, and last checked the record on 2 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

Marketed as AI ready with liquid cooling readiness. No tenant named.

Access to AI chips

GradeNo US licence required

This country carries no US destination-based licence requirement for advanced AI chips as the rules are enforced today. Access is a commercial matter between the project and its vendors. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedNo
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source

Stage history

2025-04-01Operational · sttgdc.com

Who is behind it

OperatorSTT GDC India · Colocation

Who uses the compute

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2025-04INR 4.5bn (about US$53m)

The figure covers the whole campus.

Build, land, power and water
Nothing found in public sources yet. Most contractors and utilities never name their data centre clients. Know who built it or where its power comes from? Tell us.

Sources checked 2026-10-02

  1. STT GDC India Unveils AI-Ready Data Centre Campus in Kolkata (STT GDC India, 2025-04-01)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to [email protected]. Dataset updated 2026-10-02.