AWS Palava is a data center project in Palava (Dombivli), India, operated by Amazon Web Services (Amazon Data Services India). It is at the land and permitting stage. The operator has not published a capacity figure, and ArusGrid does not estimate one.
Latest change on record: entered the record as land and permitting on 6 December 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 17 October 2026.
Next gate to watch: Approvals granted.
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Mumbai metro holds 32 active projects with 2,694 MW of planned IT load between them, and AWS Palava has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 4 are operational, 5 are operational and expanding, 11 are under construction, 6 are at the land and permitting stage and 6 are announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Mumbai metro was 6.6% as of June 2025. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.
AWS has 4 others in India and 7 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including AWS Thane (Balkum-Majiwada), AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, existing sites and AWS Bharat Future City campus. It sits on the Lodha Palava Green Integrated Data Centre Park alongside Digital Edge Palava. Named funding comes from Amazon on the equity side. The named user of the compute is Amazon Web Services (reported, unconfirmed).
The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 6 December 2024. The money on record is INR 5.75bn (about US$68m) as of May 2026, the announced investment. Power comes from unspecified (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 5 public sources for this project, the latest dated 10 June 2026, and last checked the record on 17 October 2026.
Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.
Hyperscaler self-build land acquired 2024 onward.
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.
No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced · No US destination-based licence requirement as enforced (2026-09-27) source
Self-build on 38.18 acres bought from Macrotech (Lodha) for Rs 450 crore, about 4.16m sq ft planned · as of 2024-12-06
Amazon Data Services bought the Palava City parcel from Lodha for a data centre; ET-sourced via DCD. Land purchase, no tenant named.
Source · AWS acquires 38 acres near Mumbai, India, for potential data center build (DCD, 2024-12-06)
The figure covers land only.
Platform capital spans several sites. It is never added to this project's own figure.
An own-use build. No colocation price applies.
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