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Sify Chennai 02 Siruseri campus

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

Sify Chennai 02 Siruseri campus is a data center project in Chennai, India, operated by Sify Infinit Spaces. It is operational. It is planned for 52 MW of IT load. The operator reports 4.32 MW running.

Latest change on record: entered the record as operational on 17 April 2025. Record last checked against its sources on 21 October 2026.

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Stage
Operational
Planned IT load
52 MW
Running now
4.32 MW
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Sify Infinit Spaces
Colocation
AI workloads
Confirmed
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 Sify Chennai 02 Siruseri campus ranks 6th 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.

Sify has 4 others in India tracked by ArusGrid, including Sify Rabale campus, Sify Vizag AI data centre and open CLS and Sify Noida 02. It sits on the Sify Siruseri campus. Named funding comes from IFC as debt. 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 build is phased. Tower B built (4.32MW installed at Jun 2025) at 26 MW is operational with a 2025 target; Tower B completion (IPO-funded) at 26 MW is announced with a 2028 target. The stage was recorded as operational on 17 April 2025. Power comes from TNEB grid through a dedicated substation at 230 kV. Cooling uses hybrid air and liquid cooling.

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 7 public sources for this project, the latest dated 21 August 2026, and last checked the record on 21 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 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusConfirmed

Nvidia DGX-Ready Data Center certification for liquid cooling, dated 6 May 2025, covering Chennai 02 Siruseri; operator page states 130+ kW per rack with liquid and air cooling. The certification attests capability and names no GPU deployment.

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

Tower B built (4.32MW installed at Jun 2025) · Operational26 MW, target 2025
Tower B completion (IPO-funded) · Announced26 MW, target 2028

Stage history

2025-04-17Operational · business-standard.com

Who is behind it

OperatorSify Infinit Spaces · Colocation
Funder, DebtIFC

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$293m to US$436m

No figure has been announced. This range is 52 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 6,800 to INR 8,900 (about USD 81 to 106)

ArusGrid estimate, grade C. Published band for this country. Priced on the hyperscale band, which already reflects anchor deals. 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, hyperscale (2024-12)INR 6,800 to INR 8,900 Cushman & Wakefield for Sify Infinit Spaces, 2025-10-16
Project team
ArchitectDesigntree Service Consultants · Aug 2020 Confirmed source ↗
Architectural and services engineering consultancy and green building documentation for Chennai
Cost consultant (quantity surveyor)Hill International Cost Consultancy (India) · Jan 2022 Confirmed source ↗
Cost consultancy for the Chennai data centre, purchase order of 2022-01-27
Land
Allocated bySIPCOT · 4.9 acres · INR 221.36m · leasehold · Dec 2022 Confirmed source ↗
Plot H-11/1A, SIPCOT IT Park Siruseri, the tower B site. 93-year lease from 2022-12-13 for a one-time payment of INR 221.36 million.
Power supply
Dedicated substationTNEB grid · 230kV · Oct 2025 Confirmed source ↗
The draft prospectus names an on-site 230kV GIS substation. · Applies to the whole campus.
Water and cooling
CoolingHybrid air and liquid cooling Confirmed source ↗
Chiller plant with 520TR chillers on order, plus direct-to-chip liquid cooling for racks up to 130kW.

Sources checked 2026-10-21

  1. Chennai 02 Siruseri Campus (Sify Technologies, 2026-08-21)
  2. Sify inaugurates South India's largest AI-ready data centre in Chennai (Business Standard, 2025-04-17)
  3. Sify's Chennai and Noida Data Center facilities Achieve NVIDIA DGX-Ready Certification for liquid cooling (Sify Technologies, 2025-05-06)
  4. IFC Project 51725 Sify Data Center (IFC, 2026-06-22)
  5. IFC partners with Sify to support expansion of data centers (IFC, 2026-06-18)
  6. Sify Infinit Spaces Limited Draft Red Herring Prospectus (Sify Infinit Spaces Limited via NSE, 2025-10-16)
  7. Chennai Data Center (Sify Technologies)

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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.