Sustainability in the Cloud: Indian Startups Redefining Green Data Centres

India’s data centre market is preparing for its most transformative phase yet. Driven by explosive growth in cloud consumption and AI workloads, the country’s installed data centre capacity has reached approximately 1.3 GW, more than tripling since 2019. But with this scale comes a parallel responsibility: addressing the energy, carbon, and water footprint of digital infrastructure. Over the last six months, the industry conversation has matured—capacity expansion is no longer enough; sustainability is now a core engineering and procurement priority.

Environmentally intelligent data centre design is rapidly proving to be both operationally scalable and commercially profitable, and a new generation of Indian startups is playing a decisive role in this shift.

Key drivers behind the transition

Three major forces are reshaping the sustainability narrative:

1. Rising rack power densities
   With AI and hyperscale deployments demanding higher power densities ...