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The data centre wave: what is actually planned at Dholera, tier by tier

Published 3 August 2026. Facts verified to 27 July 2026 unless dated otherwise.

Add the announced data centre numbers and Dholera hosts one of Asia's largest digital-infrastructure pipelines. The word doing all the work in that sentence is announced, and this page refuses to let it hide.

The three plans, ranked by evidence

L&T Vyoma leads on sourcing: a Rs 25,000 crore, 250 MW AI-ready green campus with operations around 2028, carried by the Government of India's newsonair channel REPORTED at MoU stage but government-channel confirmed, the strongest evidence class below construction. The company file holds the detail. Adani's reported hub is the giant: up to 7.5 GW, around Rs 3 lakh crore via AdaniConneX REPORTED, press-sourced and appropriately flagged. Tillman Global's Rs 83,000 crore plan is the caution case: enormous and single-sourced, which our ledger marks in its own row rather than averaging away REPORTED. Three plans, three evidence grades, one honest ranking.

Why data centre capital circles Dholera

• Power with a green label: about 300 MW of solar operational and 700 MW under development toward a 1,000 MW Phase 1 DURABLE. Hyperscale operators buy green power contractually and reputationally; a site that generates it adjacently is structurally attractive.
• Land at campus scale: gigawatt-class plans need contiguous serviced ground measured in hundreds of acres, exactly what the TP scheme machinery exists to produce and almost nothing near Indian metros can offer.
• The silicon adjacency: a fab cluster normalises the heavy utilities, water planning and administrative competence data centres also need; the anchor de-risks the geography for everyone after it DURABLE.
• The fibre question, honestly: long-haul connectivity and latency economics for a greenfield site are the part this record cannot yet document from its sources, so it says so plainly instead of gesturing at digital corridors. When documentable facts exist, this page gets them.

The gigawatt reality check

India's entire operational data centre base took two decades to reach single-digit gigawatts. A single site announcing up to 7.5 GW is therefore announcing a multi-decade ambition contingent on power markets, demand growth and capital cycles, not describing a construction schedule, and the difference is exactly what tier tags exist to hold. The honest frame: Dholera has one government-channel MoU of credible scale, and beyond it a pipeline of optionality whose conversion rate is the true story to watch. Our quarterly State of Dholera tracks conversions and expiries both, because a record that only counts announcements is a brochure with a spreadsheet.

What would upgrade this page

Ground-breaking with a dated announcement, a power purchase agreement, an equipment order, or a construction contract award: any of these moves a plan toward DURABLE and gets same-week recognition here. Until then the summary stands: the data centre story at Dholera is real, early, and running about two evidence grades behind its own press coverage, which is normal, survivable and worth saying out loud.