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AWS Thane (Balkum-Majiwada)

Thane, Maharashtra, India · Mumbai metro market · location approximate to district level

AWS Thane (Balkum-Majiwada) is a data center project in Thane, 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.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Amazon Web Services (Amazon Data Services India)
Hyperscaler self-build
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 capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsNo

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Hyperscaler self-build land held since 2022; an environmental clearance application reportedly states 272MW IT load but was not verified.

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 projectYes
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

2022-10-28Land and permitting · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

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

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

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2022-10INR 18bn (about US$218m)

The figure covers land only.

Land
Land sellerKalpataru (Ananta Landmarks) · 55 acres · INR 1,800m (≈US$218m) · freehold · Oct 2022 Reported source ↗
DCD says '50-60 acres' at Balkum Pada, Majiwada. The 54.73-acre figure comes from the unverified EC post.

Sources checked 2026-09-27

  1. AWS acquires 50+ acres in Thane, India (DCD, 2022-10-28)

More in Mumbai metro

Also run by AWS

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.