Indian data centre firm RackBank says it has broken ground on a campus in the city of Nava Raipur in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Spanning 13.5 acres, the development will be Chhattisgarh’s first data centre campus.
RackBank says that the facility will be built in four phases. The first will offer 80MW of capacity and will be capable of running 100,000 GPUs. It will offer 160MW of capacity at full build-out. The facility will use liquid immersion cooling solutions provided by RackBank itself.
The facility will be located in a newly built, 2.7 hectare Special Economic Zone (SEZ) for AI-based services. SEZs provide incentives and exemptions to encourage investment.
The company has stated that the facility was built on an initial investment of about US$12 million, scalable to US$36 million within five years. Precise rollout and development timings have so far not been provided.
Rackbank provides data centre infrastructure, cloud computing, and AI services. It currently operates a colocation facility in Indore and a hyperscale facility in Chennai, while facilities in Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Noida are currently in development.
In fact it was as recently as late 2024 that RackBank announced the launch of India's first state-of-the-art, purpose-built AI data centre near Indore, a city in west-central India. This facility is said to be capable of housing 60,000 GPUs, with 80MW power.
