MUMBAI, India — Lodha Developers said Tuesday it will invest an additional 1 trillion rupees ($11 billion) to build a 2.5-gigawatt (2.5 GW) data centre park in Maharashtra, expanding on an earlier 300 billion-rupee commitment, according to a Reuters report. The developer said the project is intended to be India’s largest planned data hub as demand for cloud and AI computing accelerates, Jan. 20, 2026.
What the Lodha Developers data centre park is trying to build
The expanded pledge would take the total stated investment tied to the Lodha Developers data centre park to about 1.3 trillion rupees. Lodha has not disclosed a construction timeline, but it has framed the site as a multi-tenant campus designed to host several domestic and international data centre operators.
Business Standard reported that Abhishek Lodha, managing director and CEO of Lodha Developers, signed the latest memorandum of understanding with the Maharashtra government at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We have signed another agreement with the government of Maharashtra to invest an additional Rs 1 trillion,” Lodha said. The company said the Lodha Developers data centre park is expected to create more than 16,000 direct and indirect jobs and will be developed under the state’s Green Integrated Data Centre Parks policy.
Tenant interest is already part of the pitch. Lodha has said Amazon has acquired a land parcel and arranged power for its requirements for the next 15 years, while Singapore-based STT Global Data Centres has also acquired land at the site.
Separately, Moneycontrol cited a stock exchange filing describing the fresh 1 trillion-rupee plan as an add-on to the earlier MoU and noting the announcement was made alongside the Davos meetings.
From a smaller MoU to a 2.5-gigawatt proposal
The Lodha Developers data centre park did not start at 2.5 GW. In September 2025, Lodha Developers signed an MoU to develop a data centre park at Palava in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with a proposed investment of 30,000 crore rupees and a planned capacity of 2 GW, The Economic Times reported. The report said the earlier plan was expected to create about 6,000 direct and indirect jobs.
A Times of India report on the same MoU round said the state signed MoUs worth about 1.09 lakh crore rupees that day and described Lodha’s planned green integrated data centre park in Thane district.
Why Maharashtra keeps landing data-centre bets
India’s data centre market is still relatively small compared with the amount of planned capacity now being floated, making execution — especially reliable, affordable power — a central issue. India is expected to add about 220 megawatts of capacity in 2026 and reach roughly 1.7 GW by year-end, according to a recent Economic Times report that cited Cushman & Wakefield.
Maharashtra’s pull has also been visible in other deals. In August 2025, Singapore’s CapitaLand Investment said it would invest about $2.2 billion in commercial real estate in Mumbai and Pune by 2030, with data centres among the targeted asset classes, Reuters reported.
For the Lodha Developers data centre park, the next milestones to watch will be less about headline gigawatts and more about grid connections, long-term clean power contracts, water planning and signed customer capacity. Until those pieces are locked in, the 2.5 GW figure remains an ambitious target — but it also underscores how fast India’s data infrastructure race is scaling.
