There will be an expansion of data centers in India as digital users are growing unprecedentedly.

Indian consumers are among the significant users of social media services. Facebook has a practically equivalent number of users in India if compared to the US. Data localization will require storing all user-related information that incorporates the need for Facebook and other social media platforms to store its data and soaring data center demand in India.

The requirement for data center infrastructures in India is developing dramatically, as the scale of cloud adoption as well as data utilization and generation of half a billion digital users in India, is growing unprecedented.

Increasingly more Indian companies are hoping to evolve into digital-first businesses, with a characteristic movement towards increased cloud-driven advancements in all cases.

The spread of COVID-19 has halted different data center development projects in India. Experts at Arizton expect that the pandemic will respectably affect forthcoming projects expected to be opened in Q4 2020 and Q1 2021. In any case, the spread of Covid-19 has fundamentally led to the growth of data traffic from March 2020.

To give all-time availability services, administrators are taking careful steps for their on-location workers. Hence, the COVID-19 effect on data center operations is expected to be low in India.

According to a new report (covered by Fortune India), jointly penned by real estate services company Anarock, and Mace, a London-based consultancy and construction company, stated that India will see an expansion of at least 28 enormous hyperscale data centres in the coming three years.

The Anarock-Mace report contends that these hyperscale data centers will length over 16+ million sq. ft. with at least 1,400+ MW of IT power limit. This is almost "0.6 million sq. ft. What's more, 50 MW per facility on an average per hyperscale data centre. It further mentions that India will see a significant development in the data center industry, driven by expanded data consumption and policy incentives.

According to another study, local vendors will rule the colocation market; nonetheless, the presence of worldwide sellers is expanding by means of inorganic techniques. Further, as the investment in technologies such as AI, big data, IoT increases, there will be a surge in demand for application-specific infrastructure solutions in India.

In spite of the fact that water cooling arrangements rule the market, developing concerns over power consumption are relied upon to expand the demand for in-row cooling cold ailed containment solutions powered by smart IOT sensors.

India's data center market is likewise expected to introduce a US$4.9 billion investment opportunity, following a significant increase of data center capacity by 2025. The development of robust IT infrastructure in India will help develop customer bases in financial services, manufacturing, SMEs and the public sector in India. It will also boost new business opportunities  in the education sector and related services that are involved in the streaming of large volumes of data services online.

New data centers could get an internal rate of return of 15-18% (counting land expenses), and 18-22% (barring land costs). Data centre players could make EBITDA margins of around 50% when normalised for rental costs.

Amazon will contribute US$1.6billion towards the development of two hyperscale data centers in Hyderabad. Microsoft is wanting to incorporate its Azure cloud platform with Reliance Jio's proposed data centers in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Oracle, has launched its another data center in Hyderabad in June 2020 to help expand customer demand for enterprise cloud services in the country.

The Adani Group has collaborated with US-based Digital Realty, the world's leading provider of data centre solutions, to create a 5GW capacity with an investment of US$10billion over a time of 20 years. The Hiranandani Group, through its subsidiary Yotta has started activities with a 50MW office in Mumbai.

Utilizing technology like AI, internet of things, automation, blockchain, Indian companies are developing at speed to evolve into digital-first, data-driven businesses, which is a forerunner to turning out to be intelligent enterprises.

When 5G is turned out, it will empower new applications that need  low latency and offer high reliability. Data centers will, in this manner, must be updated according to the new innovation and, thus, their development is bound to be concentrated across urban areas.

The Anarock-Mace report, strangely, contends that these data centers have the capability of getting quite possibly the most favored types of alternative real estate assets, with the emphasis moving to huge hyperscale advancements.