ESR has announced its entry into India’s data centre sector with plans to invest around Rs 9 billion to develop a hyperscale, multi storey facility in Rabale, Navi Mumbai. The company has already pre-leased the ESR Rabale MU1 data centre to a leading information and communications technology company.

The project is being developed on a 3.25-acre land parcel and will have a facility load of up to 60 megawatts. It is designed to offer scalability to support the growing demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence and enterprise workloads.

The development represents an important milestone in ESR’s pan Asia Pacific data centre pipeline of over 3 gigawatt and reflects its commitment to supporting long term growth in the local economy. Designed and developed by ESR, MU1 will be delivered as a powered shell facility within the Airoli Rabale data centre cluster, a key availability zone for Mumbai’s cloud region. Further, the site is located along major enterprise and technology corridors that support India’s expanding digital economy.