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AWS Palava data center

Name: AWS Palava data center
Address: Palava (Dombivli), Maharashtra, IN

Palava (Dombivli), Maharashtra, India · Mumbai metro market · location approximate to district level

AWS Palava is a data center project in Palava (Dombivli), India, operated by Amazon Web Services (Amazon Data Services India). It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 6 December 2024.

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Stage

Land and permitting

Planned IT load

Not published

Running now

Not disclosed

Operator

Amazon Web Services (Amazon Data Services India)

Hyperscaler self-build

AI workloads

Likely

Evidence grade

Corroborated

Will it get built?Leaning yes4 of 7 gates passed

✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Approvals granted.

Your call. Will it be built?

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

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How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. On record: named funder, committed or approved capital, three or more sources, dated source in the last 24 months. Criteria.

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Hyperscaler self-build land acquired 2024 onward.

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.

Stage history

2024-12-06Land and permitting · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorAmazon Web Services (Amazon Data Services India) · Hyperscaler self-build

Funder, EquityAmazon

Who uses the compute

Own use · hyperscalerAmazon Web Services · reported, unconfirmed

Self-build on 38.18 acres bought from Macrotech (Lodha) for Rs 450 crore, about 4.16m sq ft planned · as of 2024-12-06

Amazon Data Services bought the Palava City parcel from Lodha for a data centre; ET-sourced via DCD. Land purchase, no tenant named.

Source · AWS acquires 38 acres near Mumbai, India, for potential data center build (DCD, 2024-12-06)

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2026-05INR 5.75bn (about US$68m)

The figure covers land only.

Platform deals that include it

Lodha Developers MoUs with Maharashtra, Rs 1.3 lakh crore for a 2.5GW Green Integrated Data Centre Park at Palava
Other, 2026-01-19US$15.1bn

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

Land

Land sellerLodha Developers (Macrotech) · 38.18 acres · INR 450m (≈US$53m) · freehold · Nov 2024 Reported source ↗

Purchase registered Nov 2024; initial payment Rs 396 crore.

Land sellerLodha Developers (Macrotech) · 10.6 acres · INR 125.13m (≈US$15m) · freehold · May 2026 Reported source ↗

FSI 2.5 for data centre and ancillary use.

Power supply

Power allocation or planunspecified · Jan 2026 Reported source ↗

Lodha says Amazon 'secured 15-year power arrangements' for its Palava parcel; counterparty and MW not stated.

Dedicated substationMaharashtra state transmission utility (STU) · 1,450 MW · 400kV · Jun 2026 Reported source ↗

MERC approved a 400/220kV GIS substation at Ambernath for Lodha's Palava data centre park, funded by Lodha. The state transmission utility has granted about 1,450MW of grid connectivity in the Ambernath region, with about 1,500MW more under consideration. This is park-level grid capacity, not this site's share and not IT load. The article names Amazon Web Services among the park's operators. · Applies to the whole campus.