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Indian DC Market Growth Drivers Trends & Challenges Connectivity:
Favorable conditions such as Data centers have proven their 5G rollout in India will have a

geographical location, geo- resilience to react to these ripple effect across existing,
economics, ready to serve the changing times. Some of the traditional data centers as
market, support from the prominent trends in this space upgrades will be required to
government, location and are: support the increased data

design, easy scalability, security, Sustainability to Net Zero: processing needs, and data
infrastructure, sustainable Data centers have power consumption is expected to grow
practices, and reliable partners r e q u i r e m e n t s f o r b o t h - exponentially.

are the key determinants for o p e r a t i o n s a n d t h e r m a l Rregulations:
Data Centre demand in India. All management. Solar is plentiful, The Personal Data Protection Bill
these factors contribute towards and investments are being done (PDP) has been a major driver of
the country becoming the DC to ensure round-the-clock growth in the data center

hub globally. availability from renewable i n d u s t r y i n I n d i a . T h e
sources with energy storage that
Hyperscale DCs and the Way requirements of the PDP to have
Forward will provide data centers with data stored in the country have
more stable, resilient, and
Demand for hyperscale data made a huge impact on the
reliable power and lower carbon
centers will be pushed more impact. demand for local data center

towards major colocation capacity.
Integration and Scaling: Challenges
markets in the future. The cost of
Integrated systems allowing India is greatly hampered by a
delivering to end-users located more modular capacity have shortage of skilled labor,
far away is high. The trend will become the most popular essential for a successful data

continue with hyperscale data offering for data centers. The center. Most cities have a single
centers moving toward the demand for larger, better- power service provider with no
integrated systems will grow.
people they serve. Combine that alternate sources of power.
with the economic incentives Edge: Unstable power supply and
Edge DCs are efficient in meeting heavy reliance on generators is a
being provided for new sites and
the needs of applications in major operational task for
additional growth in more
Artificial Intelligence and operators.
traditional (at least from a multi- Machine Learning, Internet of
tenant perspective) data center Things, and Augmented / Virtual Scarcity of resources such as

markets will continue. Reality. Additionally, small Edge water to cool the facilities leads
data centers benefit from the to high ambient temperature
In India and across the globe, the fact that Edge servers exist that and power usage effectiveness
pandemic and its disruptions c a n r u n a t e l e v a t e d below the required level. Data
h a v e b r o u g h t s i g n i fi c a n t temperatures. centers are capital intensive,
challenges for businesses. which is a barrier to entry for
many developers and investors

alike.

June 2022