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AirTrunk MAA1

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Chennai market · location approximate to district level

AirTrunk MAA1 is a data center project in Chennai, India, operated by AirTrunk. It is at the land and permitting stage. It is planned for 128 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
128 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
AirTrunk
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Modern greenfield above 100MW by an AI-focused hyperscale developer.

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

2026-04-20Land and permitting · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorAirTrunk · Colocation
Funder, EquityBlackstone
Funder, EquityCPP Investments

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Platform deals that include it

AirTrunk US$30bn India programme (5GW by 2030)
Country programme, 2026-06US$30.0bn

Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.

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 2026-09-27

  1. MAA1 Chennai (AirTrunk, 2026-04-20)
  2. APAC data center firm AirTrunk enters India, acquires Lumina CloudInfra (DCD, 2026-04-20)
  3. AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India (TechCrunch, 2026-06-05)

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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 2026-09-27.