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Colt Airoli expansion campus

Navi Mumbai (Airoli), Maharashtra, India · Mumbai metro market · location approximate to district level

Colt Airoli expansion campus is a data center project in Navi Mumbai (Airoli), India, operated by Colt Data Centre Services. It is at the land and permitting stage. The published capacity figure is 100 MW, and its basis is not stated as IT load.

Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 18 July 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 2 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
100 MW
unstated
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Colt Data Centre Services
Colocation
AI workloads
No signal either way
Evidence grade
Corroborated

Where it sits

Mumbai metro holds 25 active projects with 2,020 MW of planned IT load between them, and Colt Airoli expansion campus ranks 7th by planned capacity. Of those, 3 are operational, 4 are operational and expanding, 9 are under construction, 6 are at the land and permitting stage and 3 are announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Mumbai metro was 6.6% as of June 2025. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.

Colt DCS has 1 other in India tracked by ArusGrid, including Colt Mumbai 1 and 2. Named funding comes from RMZ. No tenant has been disclosed, which is normal for colocation and says nothing about occupancy.

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 18 July 2024. The money on record is INR 85bn (about US$1.0bn) as of November 2024, 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 2 public sources for this project, the latest dated 19 November 2024, and last checked the record on 2 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.

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

AI workloads

StatusNo signal either way

No public signal either way.

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

Phases

Phase A · Land and permitting30 MW

Stage history

2024-07-18Land and permitting · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorColt Data Centre Services · Colocation
Funder, Joint venture partnerRMZ

Who uses the compute

No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy. Not yet checked against second-order sources.

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2024-11INR 85bn (about US$1.0bn)

The figure covers the whole campus.

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 2026-10-02

  1. Colt acquires land in Navi Mumbai for 100MW data center (DCD, 2024-07-18)
  2. Colt signs $1.7bn joint venture in India with RMZ (DCD, 2024-11-19)

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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 2026-10-02.