The joint venture between Indian data center provider Web Werks and NYSE-listed Iron Mountain Data Centers has acquired a four-acre parcel of land in Chennai to house two new data centers, addressing the growing customer demand in the region. The JV will invest over Rs 1,800 crore to build the Chennai data centers, which are expected to be commissioned by mid-2025.
The two data centers will be built to tier III standards and will support 36 megawatts of IT load, further expanding the company’s rapidly growing pan-India footprint. This expansion will support more than 90 megawatts of new development across key markets such as Pune, Bengaluru, Noida, Mumbai, and Hyderabad.
Mark Kidd, EVP & global general manager, data centres & asset lifecycle management, Iron Mountain Data Centers, said, “Our Pan-India expansion is focused on supporting our customers through their digital transformations and leveraging the rapid digital growth in the country. We look forward to bringing our core competencies of energy efficient, network dense and highly secure colocation data centers to this thriving market.”
In June of this year, the JV had announced an investment of Rs 1,400 crore ($170 million) in a data center in Navi Mumbai. The proposed facility, known as Mumbai-3, will have a capacity of 32MW and be designed to a tier III standard. It is expected to go live in the second half of 2025, with the JV having already acquired a five-acre parcel for the development.
Announcing the purchase of land in Chennai on Monday, the JV mentioned that Chennai is emerging as one of India’s fastest-growing data center markets due to its strong interconnection with Singapore and the rest of Asia, its surplus of power, connectivity to landlocked cities, and its ideal geographic location for a disaster recovery site. The region also boasts a robust ecosystem of cloud service providers, network fabrics, and multiple subsea cable landing stations.
“Data centre ecosystems require submarine cables, local consumption and internet traffic to proliferate. Chennai is a desired location for data centres for those reasons plus ample land, power and connectivity options,” Nikhil Rathi, founder & CEO of Web Werks Data Centers, said.
Web Werks has assembled an extensive range of colocation and hosting services designed to deliver wholesale, retail, and hyper-scale hosting facilities via strategically planned tier 3 data center facilities in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, and Pune. The focus is to strengthen the carrier, cloud, and content-neutral interconnection ecosystem for businesses across India. Web Werks is expanding with new data center facilities in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Chennai.