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PDG CH1

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

PDG CH1 is a data center project in Chennai, India, operated by Princeton Digital Group. It has been announced and has not yet reached the land or permitting stage. It is planned for 72 MW of IT load.

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Stage
Announced
Planned IT load
72 MW
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Princeton Digital Group
Colocation
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Sourced

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

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

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Operator markets 72MW as AI-ready high density.

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

2024-09-19Announced · princetondg.com

Who is behind it

OperatorPrinceton Digital Group · Colocation
Funder, EquityWarburg Pincus
Funder, EquityOntario Teachers' Pension Plan
Funder, EquityMubadala
Funder, EquityStonepeak

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

Platform deals that include it

PDG US$1bn India expansion (Mumbai and Chennai, 230MW)
Platform capital, 2024-09US$1.0bn

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. Princeton Digital Group Unveils Major India Expansion Taking Total Capacity to 230 MW in Mumbai and Chennai (Princeton Digital Group, 2024-09-19)
  2. Where we operate (Princeton Digital Group, 2026-09-27)

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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.