Adani Group has $4 billion plans to rapidly expand its data center business to take advantage of the surge in demand for data center services from tech giants in the last six months, according to a mint. Reportwho cited two unknown sources. HT could not independently verify the information.

Business Name Adani ConneX Pvt. Ltd, a joint venture between Adani Enterprises Ltd and Virginia-based EdgeConneX, will see its current 17 MW operational and 210 MW under construction projects expand to 1-1.5 GW within one to two years from the initial target of five years. , according to the report.

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The Adani group, which currently has just 2.5 percent of India’s data center market, now gets orders of 50-100 MW, compared to an average of 5-10 MW two years ago, due to increased demand. from

The expansion plan will also benefit the group’s power generation business, which includes Adani Power Ltd and Adani Green Energy Ltd, as power alone accounts for 60 per cent of data center operational costs, according to the report.

This is because services that use artificial intelligence (AI), such as WhatsApp, Google and Facebook, use 8-12 times more power than non-AI computational requirements and a simple ChatGPT search on Google Requires 10 times more power than search.

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Hyperscalers and colocation drive demand. Hyperscalar clouds are large-scale cloud services that run on a large number of data centers. Colocation refers to the renting of data center server capacity to companies.

Adani Enterprises said its major hyperscale customers include Microsoft, Google, and AWS, according to the article, which cited its latest annual report.

The Adani Group is not alone in this. Data center demand has also pushed other major players in India such as Nxtra by Airtel, Brookfield-RIL and Hiranandani’s Yotta data centers into expansion mode.

Adani Group is building data centers in Noida and Hyderabad, the first phase of which is expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2024-25, according to the report. The deal is sealed. .

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