Sify Launches South India’s Largest AI-Ready Data Centre Campus in Chennai
The campus is engineered for over 130 megawatts (MW) of capacity
Sify Technologies Limited, the Chennai-based IT and communications powerhouse, has officially launched its Chennai 02 data centre campus—hailed as South India’s largest AI-ready data centre campus.
Inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, the facility marks a major milestone in the region’s digital infrastructure evolution.
The campus is engineered for over 130 megawatts (MW) of capacity and supports advanced workloads with power densities of 8–25 kW for air-cooled racks and up to 200 kW for liquid-cooled AI deployments. Sify says the facility is primed to host dense AI workloads at scale.
This new facility joins a growing nationwide network of Sify data centres located in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Noida, Chandigarh, and the pioneering Vashi campus in Mumbai—India’s first commercial data centre, established in 2000.
“With our cumulative investment now crossing ₹10,000 crore from an initial ₹2,500 crore, we’re not just building infrastructure—we’re creating an ecosystem of opportunity. We foresee employment generation for 10,000 people, both directly and indirectly, as this facility scales," Sify Chairman Raju Vegesna, said.
Last year, it became the first Indian company to receive NVIDIA’s DGX-ready certification for liquid-cooled infrastructure. It soon followed with the launch of Cloudinfinit +AI, a GPU-as-a-service platform tailored for enterprises tackling compute-intensive AI and deep learning workloads.
Sify recently announced a $5 billion investment to further expand its data centre footprint, especially into India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities—solidifying its position as a key player in India’s booming data economy.
In February, Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters inaugurated its ₹4,000 crore data centre in Chennai in phases. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin inaugurated the centre located at Ambattur industrial estate.
Chennai is the company’s fifth hyperscale data centre campus following Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida and Bengaluru.
The data centre will bring an indirect investment of around ₹50,000 crore and create 500 direct and 9,000 indirect jobs.
Named Namma Datacentre, the data centre campus will include two data centre buildings with a combined built-up area of almost 1 million sq feet, and 72 MW IT load capacity.
