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Digital Connexion MAA10 data center

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Chennai market · location approximate to district level

Digital Connexion MAA10 is a data center project in Chennai, India, operated by Digital Connexion. It is operational. It is planned for 20 MW of IT load. The operator reports 20 MW running.

Latest change on record: moved to operational on 12 January 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 22 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
20 MW
Running now
20 MW
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Digital Connexion
Joint venture
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Verified
Will it get built?Built7 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured✓ Power arranged✓ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use✓ Builder appointed✓ Construction started

This project is built or running, so every gate counts as passed.

Build odds is ArusGrid's reading of the public record, not a forecast, a rating or advice. It counts the gates this project has passed in public sources. Private progress does not show, a passed gate can be undone, and projects that pass every gate still stop. The method has not yet been tested against outcomes. How it works.

How India approves, powers and taxes data centers is on Data center rules in India.

Where it sits

Chennai holds 16 active projects with 819 MW of planned IT load between them, and Digital Connexion MAA10 ranks 16th by planned capacity. Of those, 10 are operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 2 are under construction, 2 are at the land and permitting stage and 1 is announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Chennai was 24.2% as of June 2025. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.

Digital Connexion has 1 other in India tracked by ArusGrid, including Digital Connexion BOM10. It sits on the Digital Connexion Ambattur campus. Named funding comes from Brookfield, Reliance Industries (Jio) and Digital Realty. No user of the capacity is on the public record as of 2026-10-01, after a check of operator, landlord, contractor, regulator and lender documents. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

The dated record runs from under construction on 8 February 2023 to operational on 12 January 2024. Power comes from Not named through a dedicated substation at 230 kV (reported, unconfirmed).

The US export control position for advanced AI chips in India, as of 27 September 2026, is recorded as “No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced”. ArusGrid holds 8 public sources for this project, the latest dated 20 September 2024, and last checked the record on 22 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Running capacity. The site is operational or expanding. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseYes
Three or more sourcesYes
Dated source in the last 24 monthsNo

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Operator states up to 70kW per rack.

Access to AI chips

GradeNo US licence required

This country carries no US destination-based licence requirement for advanced AI chips as the rules are enforced today. Access is a commercial matter between the project and its vendors. Criteria are published on the Methodology page.

US licence required for this destination as enforcedNo
A party headquartered in China or Macau on the projectNo
Country-level export frameworkNo
A party named in a government authorisationNo
US approved operator or confirmed client on the projectNo
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source

Phases

MAA10 phase 1 · Operational20 MW, target 2024

Stage history

2023-02-08Under construction · datacenterdynamics.com
2024-01-12Operational · prnewswire.com

Who is behind it

OperatorDigital Connexion · Joint venture
Funder, Joint venture partnerBrookfield
Funder, Joint venture partnerReliance Industries (Jio)
Funder, Joint venture partnerDigital Realty

Who uses the compute

Checked on 2026-10-01. No user of this capacity is on the public record. ArusGrid read the operator's releases, the landlord's and contractors' exchange filings, regulator and lender documents and interconnection records. Most colocation leases are confidential, so this says nothing about occupancy.

Money at this site

ArusGrid estimate, building costabout US$113m to US$168m

No figure has been announced. This range is 20 MW of planned IT load times a published benchmark of US$6.64 per watt for Mumbai, plus or minus 15 percent, with 10 percent more at the top for liquid cooling because the project is AI-positioned. It covers the building and its mechanical and electrical plant. It excludes land, grid works, servers and fees.

Benchmark: Turner & Townsend Data Centre Construction Cost Index 2025, as reported by Data Storage Asia. An estimate is never added to any total on the site.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

ArusGrid estimate, grade CINR 7,650 to INR 11,900 (about USD 91 to 142)

ArusGrid estimate, grade C. Published band for this country. Priced on the wholesale band. No usable capex for this site. Electricity unstated in the band. An estimate, never a quote, computed by fixed rules published on the Colo prices page and never counted in any total.

market band, wholesale (2024-12)INR 7,650 to INR 11,900 Cushman & Wakefield for Sify Infinit Spaces, 2025-10-16
Project team
Cost consultant (quantity surveyor)Linesight · Sep 2024 · completed Confirmed source ↗
Cost management for MAA10: cost reports, change control, capex sheet, local benchmarks and final account review
Land
Land sellerUnnamed automobile forging manufacturing company · 10 acres · INR 2,300m (≈US$30m) · Feb 2022 Reported source ↗
Bought by BAM Digital Realty, the Brookfield and Digital Realty 50:50 JV, for over INR 230 crore (citing Economic Times). DCD (8 Feb 2023) gives the 10-acre plot cost as US$30 million, paid in early 2022.
Power supply
Dedicated substationNot named · 230kV Reported source ↗
Linesight's project page lists a 230kV substation in the campus scope. Utility not named. · Applies to the whole campus.

Sources checked 2026-10-22

  1. Digital Realty launches MAA10 data center in Chennai, sets new standards for India's data center industry (PR Newswire, 2024-01-12)
  2. MAA 10: Digital Connexion's New Data Center launched in Chennai (W.Media, 2024-01-15)
  3. Digital Connexion launches state-of-the-art MAA10 data center in Chennai (CXOToday, 2024-01-12)
  4. Linesight and Digital Connexion win inaugural Data Centre of The Year award for MAA10 Chennai Data Centre (Linesight, 2024-09-20)
  5. Digital Connexion's MAA10 Data Center, Chennai (Linesight)
  6. Brookfield, Digital Realty JV buys 10-acres for data centre in Chennai for Rs.230-Cr (Venture Intelligence, 2022-02-21)
  7. Minutes of the 590th meeting of the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority, Tamil Nadu, held on 09.02.2023 (SEIAA Tamil Nadu, 2023-02-09)
  8. Digital Realty and Brookfield break ground on data center in Chennai, India (DCD, 2023-02-08)

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Planned MW is IT load, the power available to servers, unless marked otherwise. Running capacity is rarely published, so a missing figure means undisclosed. Definitions, sourcing standards and evidence rules are on the Methodology page. Data is CC BY-NC 4.0. Corrections go to corrections@arusgrid.com. Dataset updated 2026-10-18.