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CapitaLand DC Chennai

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

CapitaLand DC Chennai is a data center project in Chennai, India, operated by CapitaLand Data Centre. It is under construction. It is planned for 34 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Under construction
Planned IT load
34 MW
Running now
0 MW
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
CapitaLand Data Centre
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Corroborated

Where it sits

Chennai holds 13 active projects with 636 MW of planned IT load between them, and CapitaLand DC Chennai ranks 9th by planned capacity. Of those, 9 are operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 1 is under construction, 1 is at the land and permitting stage and 1 is announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Chennai was 24.2% as of June 2025. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.

CapitaLand Investment has 1 other in India tracked by ArusGrid, including CapitaLand DC ITPH. It sits on the CapitaLand DC Chennai Ambattur campus. Named funding comes from CapitaLand India Trust and CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund on the equity side. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The dated record runs from at the land and permitting stage on 13 December 2022 to under construction on 29 July 2026. The money on record is INR 19.4bn as of December 2022, 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 4 public sources for this project, the latest dated 1 October 2026, and last checked the record on 1 October 2026.

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.

Reaching this stage requires a dated construction source, which corroborates the project on its own.

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

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

34 MW IT colo. No named tenant, liquid cooling or GPU disclosure for this site.

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

2022-12-13Land and permitting · w.media
2025-12-31Under construction · investor.clint.com.sg
2026-07-29Under construction · capitaland.com

Who is behind it

OperatorCapitaLand Data Centre · Colocation
Funder, EquityCapitaLand India Trust
Funder, EquityCapitaLand India Data Centre Fund

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

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2022-12INR 19.4bn
Land
Land sellerUndisclosed seller · 4.01 acres · INR 832.8m · freehold · Dec 2022 Confirmed source ↗
Freehold site acquired Dec 2022

Sources checked 2026-10-01

  1. CapitaLand India Trust Annual Report 2025 (CapitaLand India Trust, 2025-12-31)
  2. CapitaLand India Trust records 8% increase in 1H 2026 distributable income (CapitaLand, 2026-07-29)
  3. CapitaLand India Trust acquires Chennai site to develop its third data centre in India (W.Media, 2022-12-13)
  4. CapitaLand Data Centre Chennai (CapitaLand, 2026-10-01)

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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 2026-10-01.