TCS Commits $7.4B to Build One-Gigawatt AI Data Centre Campus in Hyderabad

TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad

European data centres above 500kW must file their water consumption every year, which is the part of this announcement nobody in India has to prove Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and water-neutral design principles. EU rules require any data centre above 500kW to report total and drinking water consumption to a European database every year. Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus in southern India. Bloomberg News reported the exchange filing on Saturday. The site sits on 264 acres in Hyderabad, in Telangana, and will have a capacity of up to one gigawatt. The land is already secured, and TCS expects the campus to rank among the largest AI infrastructure sites in India. "The campus will support frontier AI companies and hyperscalers with high-density, liquid-cooled compute infrastructure on a global scale," the company said. TCS also says the project will use green energy and water-neutral design principles. Neither term is defined in the filing. The money follows a pattern. TPG put $1B into the company's data centre business last November, part of a wider flow of foreign capital into Indian AI infrastructure through local firms. Two of those words carry obligations in Europe that they do not carry in India, and the gap is not rhetorical. Any data centre in the EU with at least 500kW of installed IT power must report annually to a European database, under a delegated regulation adopted in 2024. The indicators include total water consumption and drinking water consumption, from which water usage effectiveness is calculated. Energy demand, waste heat recovery and the renewable share are in there too. The annual deadline is 15 May. The regulation itself sets out no penalty for not filing, so the discipline is disclosure rather than enforcement. So water-neutral design is a phrase in Hyderabad and a filed number in Frankfurt. Neither guarantees the water, but only one leaves evidence. The scale runs the other way. Europe has opened bidding for up to seven AI gigafactories worth roughly EUR 30B, of which about EUR 10B would be public money and only around EUR 1B of Brussels' share is committed. Construction there is targeted for early 2027. TCS is putting $7.4B into one campus now, most of it private money rather than public. Europe built the measuring regime first and the gigawatts second. Its own gigafactory plan has already stumbled on delays, and this filing is what the other order looks like.

Tata Consultancy Services: TCS' HyperVault to build 1 GW AI data centre campus in Hyderabad with Rs 70,000 cr investment

HyperVault, a TCS subsidiary, will develop a large AI data centre campus in Hyderabad. This facility will have a 1 Gigawatt capacity and significant investment. The project aims to support frontier AI companies and hyperscalers globally. It will create thousands of jobs and utilize green energy principles. Telangana's Chief Minister called the project historic for the state. TCS subsidiary HyperVault has announced it will build a 1 GW AI data centre campus in Hyderabad, at an investment of Rs 70,000 crore marking one of India's largest planned investments in AI infrastructure. The company has secured 264 acres of land in Hyderabad's Future City to develop a large-scale AI data centre campus, which will cater to frontier AI companies and hyperscalers, supporting high-density GPU deployments for AI training, inference and advanced computing workloads. The development will be undertaken in phases based on customer demand and technology requirements. At full build-out, the campus is expected to be among India's largest and most advanced AI infrastructure campuses, HyperVault said. It will incorporate liquid-cooled compute infrastructure, green energy and water-neutral design principles. The project is also expected to create several thousand direct and indirect jobs and drive demand across power, cooling, networking, construction, engineering and data-centre operations. TCS CEO and MD K Krithivasan said the project advances the company's "Infrastructure-to-Intelligence" strategy by combining AI-ready infrastructure with its cloud, engineering, enterprise transformation and AI capabilities. "AI is a civilisational shift and will change everything we do today," Krithivasan said, adding that Hyderabad offers the scale, talent and ecosystem required to serve global customers. Addressing the media, Krithivasan said the data centre will be operational in 18-24 month from breaking ground. In response, CM Revanth Reddy asked TCS to inaugurate the data centre on June 2, 2028, assuring all required sanctions to speed up the process. The project follows a conversation between Reddy and Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran at Davos in January this year, Telangana IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu said. The IT Minister said the data centre will create direct & indirect employment of up to 7,000. The campus will be developed as part of Telangana's broader push to position the state as a strategic hub for AI and advanced digital infrastructure.