Building resilient foundations for India’s expanding Data Centre ecosystem

By- Saurabh Verma, Chief Business Officer, Howden (India)

India’s data centre sector is growing faster than almost anyone expected. Five or six years ago, conversations around data infrastructure were still fairly contained within technology teams and real estate discussions. Today, data centres sit at the centre of India’s digital economy. Payments, banking, logistics, healthcare, government platforms and enterprise systems all depend on them working, quietly and continuously.

This growth is being driven by familiar forces: cloud adoption, rising data consumption, the rollout of 5G, and the increasing digitisation of financial services and public platforms. Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru have become natural anchors for this expansion, attracting hyperscale investment and longterm capital.

What has not grown at the same pace, however, is the way risk is understood and addressed.

From scale to substance

At a surface level, the challenge appears to be about capacity. More ...