Chennai's data centre corridor added another large facility this week. On 15 October, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay and Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong unveiled CapitaLand Data Centre Chennai 01 in Ambattur.
The facility
- 53 MW of gross power capacity once complete, targeted for the end of 2026
- 34 MW of IT power across 13 data halls, with a dedicated 110 kV substation
- Designed for high-density and liquid-cooled deployments, with carrier-neutral connectivity
- Total planned investment of about Rs 1,940 crore
- Targeting LEED Gold, with high-efficiency chillers, water economisation and solar panels
It is jointly held by CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT), a Singapore-listed business trust focused on India, and CapitaLand India Data Centre Fund. It is CLINT's first data centre in Tamil Nadu. Its first data centre anywhere, a 108 MW facility in Navi Mumbai completed in 2025, is fully leased to a global hyperscaler.
Twenty-two years in the state
CapitaLand Investment has been in Tamil Nadu for 22 years and has put more than Rs 6,000 crore into seven operating assets. That started with International Tech Park Chennai in Taramani in 2004, the city's first private IT business park. It has since added industrial facilities at Mahindra World City, logistics parks at Oragadam and Periyapalam, and serviced residences.
Across India, its funds under management passed S$8 billion as of 30 June 2026. The portfolio includes four data centres under development.
The same day, a chip policy
The state used the occasion to launch its Semiconductor Ecosystem Policy 2026, which is aligned with the Centre's Semicon 2.0 programme. It builds on a planned Rs 175-crore semiconductor and electronics park spread over 422 acres at Maduramangalam in Kancheepuram district. The government says it wants Tamil Nadu to be a USD 1.5 trillion economy by 2036.
Why it matters
Data centres follow demand, and that demand is now coming mostly from AI and cloud workloads. Built-in support for liquid cooling and high-density racks shows who this facility is for: hyperscalers and large enterprises running GPU clusters, not just traditional colocation.
For Chennai, Ambattur is already an established data centre corridor, and this adds to it. Putting a data centre and a semiconductor policy on the same stage on the same day says plainly where the state wants its next phase of growth to come from.
