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AWS Powai data center

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Mumbai metro market · location approximate to district level

AWS Powai is a data center project in Mumbai, India, operated by Amazon Web Services. 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 July 2026. Record last checked against its sources on 12 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
Not published
unstated
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Amazon Web Services
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Corroborated
Will it get built?Open question3 of 7 gates passed
✓ Land secured○ Power arranged○ Approvals granted✓ Money committed✓ Tenant or own use○ Builder appointed○ Construction started

Next gate to watch: Power arranged.

Your call. Will it be built?

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

Mumbai metro holds 32 active projects with 2,694 MW of planned IT load between them, and AWS Powai 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.

Amazon has 1 other in India and 1 project elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including AWS Airoli. It sits on the L&T Powai campus. The named user of the compute is Amazon Web Services (confirmed).

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 6 July 2026.

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 2 public sources for this project, the latest dated 6 July 2026, and last checked the record on 12 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

Construction or financing is evidenced, or several independent signals agree. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderNo
Disclosed client (confirmed)Yes
Committed or approved capitalNo
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsYes

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Hyperscaler self-build. Land assembled 2022 to 2026.

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 projectYes
Named chip-vendor partnershipNo

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

Stage history

2026-07-06Land and permitting · datacenterdynamics.com

Who is behind it

OperatorAmazon Web Services · Hyperscaler self-build

Who uses the compute

Own use · hyperscalerAmazon Web Services · confirmed

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

An own-use build. No colocation price applies.

Land
LandlordLarsen & Toubro Ltd · 5.5 acres · leased · Aug 2022 Confirmed source ↗
First parcel. About INR 921 crore over about 21.5 years. Brief cites INR 3.57 crore a month.
LandlordLarsen & Toubro Ltd · 4 acres · leased · Aug 2023 Confirmed source ↗
Second parcel. About INR 562 crore over about 18 years.

Sources checked 2026-10-12

  1. Amazon Data Services pre-leases 4 acres in Mumbai for data centre expansion (Business Standard, 2026-07-03)
  2. Amazon's data center arm expands land lease by four acres in Mumbai, India (DatacenterDynamics, 2026-07-06)

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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.