India's greenfield compute hub, built from the ground up at Dholera SIR.
L&T Vyoma has signed an official MoU with the Government of Gujarat for a ₹25,000 crore ($3 billion) investment in a 250 MW green, AI-ready hyperscale data center campus. The MoU was signed in February 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit. This is currently the ONLY officially confirmed and documented data center investment for Dholera SIR with verifiable official press releases, government announcements, and signed agreements.
L&T Vyoma is developing a ₹25,000 crore ($3 billion) data center with 250 MW of IT load capacity. The MoU was signed in February 2026 at the India AI Impact Summit between the Government of Gujarat and L&T Vyoma. This is an officially documented investment with ₹25,000 crore committed for a 250 MW green, AI-ready data center campus. The design emphasizes AI-readiness from the start, meaning it uses liquid cooling infrastructure rather than traditional air-cooled systems. Liquid cooling handles the heat density that AI chips produce, which can exceed 100 kW per rack. Traditional air cooling tops out around 15 to 20 kW per rack. The facility is being built in the Bhimtalav zone of Dholera SIR, with an operational target of 2028. This is currently the only data center investment officially confirmed and announced by both the Gujarat Government and the developer.
Existing data center markets in Mumbai and Chennai face land scarcity, power grid congestion, and rising real estate costs. Mumbai's data center land prices have tripled in five years. Chennai's coastal locations carry flood risk, as the 2015 and 2023 floods demonstrated. Dholera offers large, contiguous plots at reasonable rates, direct access to the 5,000 MW solar park for clean energy, and proximity to the Dholera International Airport and Mundra Port for physical logistics. The state government has designated data centers as a priority sector, which streamlines approvals. India's AI Mission and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act of 2023 both require expanded domestic compute infrastructure, and Dholera's greenfield status lets builders design for current needs rather than retrofitting old facilities.
Data centers are among the most power-intensive facilities per square meter. A single hyperscale hall running AI training workloads can consume 50 to 100 MW, enough to power a small city. The power must be clean, stable, and redundant. Dholera's solar park addresses this directly. The 49-kilometer underground 33kV cable network feeds power from the solar arrays to the industrial zone, with substations stepping voltage up to 200kV for bulk transmission. Torrent Power manages the local 400/220 kV gas-insulated substations with 1,500 MVA capacity. For cooling, Dholera's coastal location provides natural advantages. The Gulf of Khambhat offers cooler ambient temperatures compared to inland Rajasthan or Maharashtra, reducing the energy needed for mechanical cooling. The greenfield site also means cooling infrastructure can be designed around the specific thermal loads of each data hall, rather than adapting to existing building constraints.
Beyond the data centers themselves, Dholera has assembled a supporting ICT master plan. Cisco is handling high-speed networking and IoT integration. Wipro serves as the primary ICT consultant for smart city platform integration. IBM is the implementation partner for AI-driven analytics and smart governance. Together, these three companies are building the digital backbone that connects the data centers to the rest of the industrial zone, the command center, and the broader Gujarat grid. The plan also accounts for physical network redundancy, with multiple fiber optic routes connecting Dholera to Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and international landing stations.
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