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 capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes
AI workloads
StatusLikely
Operator frames the Maharashtra expansion as built for AI and high-density computing; 400MW ceiling greenfield.
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 1 · Under construction50 MW
Stage history
Who is behind it
OperatorSTT GDC India · Colocation
Funder, EquityST Telemedia
Funder, EquityKKR
Funder, EquitySingtel
No tenant disclosed. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.
Platform deals that include it
STT GDC India MoU with Maharashtra, up to Rs 5,000 crore for Mumbai and Pune expansion
Other, 2025-10-20US$569m
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 and Palava Induslogic 4 (Lodha subsidiary) · 24.34 acres · INR 499m (≈US$57m) · Sep 2025 Reported source ↗ Registered sale of 1.74 acres from Lodha Developers and 22.6 acres from Palava Induslogic 4. DCD later describes a 46-acre campus, so a second parcel exists and was not sourced.