Chennai Data Centre

Land purchased in the city of Ambattur for a planned hyperscale data centre to serve India’s rapidly growing digital market.

of IT Power: 96MW
Resilient Infrastructure: Colt Tier 3

Hyperscale data centre planned with 96MW IT power

We have acquired land in the key location of Ambuttur to plan for the first phase development of our Colt Chennai Data Centre.

This data centre will be the second of two data centres that will be constructed and designed to a Colt tier 3 specification. On completion, it will deliver 96MW of IT power.

Planned to serve India’s rapidly growing digital market and to aid Chennai’s goal to become a $1 trillion economy by 2030, our Colt Chennai Data Centre is an excellent site for cloud and AI service providers looking for scalable capacity to support high performance computing (HPC) and increasing IT workloads.

Colt Chennai Data Centre is being developed as part of Colt DCS's joint venture with RMZ, one of the world's largest privately-owned alternative asset owners, who have over 20 years of experience in asset ownership and management in India.

Why select our Colt Chennai Data Centre?

Whether you’re a cloud service provider, or a technology company creating AI powered solutions, selecting our Colt Chennai Data Centre has many advantages:

Scale & Power

With 96MW of IT power across secure technical space, your increasing power density requirements will be delivered.

Location

The site is in a great location to support high network speeds and robust connectivity options as it is close to the country’s major fibre landing station. The site is also approximately 25 km from Chennai International Airport.

Connectivity

Our data centres are all carrier-neutral and offer a full range of national and international carriers ensuring customers can optimise network cost efficiencies, redundancy and uptime.

Sustainability

Using renewable energy and eco-friendly practices across our operations will help you reduce your carbon footprint and meet your IT sustainability IT goals.

Operational Excellence

Our experienced staff have the technical capabilities to support your goals, so you can feel confident that your IT infrastructure is in capable hands.

Onboarding & Support

From consultation, to design and implementation, our team are on hand to support you throughout the entire process and beyond the handover of your new white space. You can be sure to receive optimal customer experience with the appropriate level of support.

Colt Chennai Data Centre

After securing a 10-acre plot, we plan to launch our second data centre in India in 2027 to cater to the growing digitisation in the country.

"We are very excited to expand our presence to Southern India with a new hyperscale data centre to be built in Chennai. This is a fantastic location for our customers as the site will be ideally situated to offer access to a high concentration of fibre routes with incredibly fast network speeds. With India experiencing rapid digitisation across its industries and generative AI technology continuing to dominate the global market, our soon-to-be-built Chennai data centre will be the perfect premises for customers that require a reliable and trusted data centre which can also support their HPC, AI or growing IT workloads."

Pratap Mane, Country Head, India.

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