Digital Edge (India) buys 30 acres in Palava for Rs 1,000 cr, plans 270MW data centre

Digital Edge (India), backed by the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), has acquired over 30 acres of land at Lodha Developers’ Green Integrated Data Centre Park in Palava near Mumbai for around Rs 1,000 crore to develop a hyperscale data centre campus, said persons familiar with the development.

This marks one of the largest land transactions in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s data centre segment.

The proposed facility will be developed as a 270 MW hyperscale data centre campus, significantly expanding Digital Edge’s planned capacity in India as demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads, and enterprise digital infrastructure continues to rise sharply.


The acquisition will support the company’s second data centre campus in India. Digital Edge’s first campus, developed at the former Mukand plant site in Navi Mumbai’s Airoli, already has one building completed and fully leased, while a second building under construction has also been fully pre-leased, reflecting sustained absorption from hyperscale cloud operators and large enterprise customers.

“The Palava land parcel is expected to be developed in phases, with capacity additions aligned to demand from global cloud service providers and large-scale digital enterprises. The location within Lodha’s integrated data centre park is seen as strategically significant due to large contiguous land availability, planned infrastructure support, and its proximity to Mumbai’s core connectivity ecosystem,” said one of the persons mentioned above.

ET’s email queries to Digital Edge (India) and Lodha remained unanswered. Transaction advisor JLL India declined to comment.

The transaction also underscores the continued momentum in large-scale digital infrastructure investments in India, particularly in Mumbai, which remains the country’s largest data centre hub. The city benefits from international submarine cable landings, dense enterprise demand, and its role as a financial and commercial centre, making it a preferred destination for hyperscale deployments.

According to industry experts, large land acquisitions of this scale are increasingly rare within established urban markets, with developers securing parcels in integrated data centre parks to ensure long-term scalability. The 270 MW capacity planned at Palava places the project among the largest hyperscale developments under execution in India’s data centre sector.

Digital Edge operates as part of a broader Asia-focused digital infrastructure platform, with India emerging as a key growth market alongside other high-demand geographies in the region. Backing from NIIF has strengthened its expansion capabilities in the country as global and domestic operators accelerate investments in cloud and AI-ready infrastructure.

With multiple global cloud providers scaling capacity in India, the country’s data centre sector is expected to continue witnessing strong demand-driven expansion, with Mumbai at the centre of this build-out.