"Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has secured $1 billion from private equity firm TPG as part of a multi-year, $2 billion project to build a network of gigawatt-scale data centers in the country. The project, dubbed "HyperVault," comes as demand for AI compute is rising faster than companies can build the power-hungry infrastructure needed to support it. The demand-supply gap for AI compute in India is particularly stark:"
"Liquid cooling and high-density rack designs are growing common as the GPUs needed to power AI inference and training use significantly more power and generate more heat than conventional CPU servers. But such designs also raise questions about resource use in countries like India, where water scarcity is already a concern. In urban hubs such as Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai, where much of India's data-center capacity is concentrated, existing water stress could complicate operations."
Tata Consultancy Services secured $1 billion from private equity firm TPG as part of a multi-year, $2 billion HyperVault project to build gigawatt-scale data centers across India. The deployment targets liquid-cooled, high-density facilities designed to support advanced AI inference and training workloads that require substantially more power and cooling than conventional CPU servers. India produces nearly 20% of global data but holds only about 3% of data center capacity, creating a significant demand-supply gap. Liquid cooling increases water use, raising concerns in water-stressed urban hubs such as Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai. Power reliability and availability of industrial land are additional bottlenecks as capacity expands.
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