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Microsoft Pune (Hinjewadi) data center

Pune, Maharashtra, India · Pune market · location approximate to district level

Microsoft Pune (Hinjewadi) is a data center project in Pune, India, operated by Microsoft. 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 11 September 2024. Record last checked against its sources on 19 October 2026.

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Stage
Land and permitting
Planned IT load
Not published
Running now
Not disclosed
Operators rarely publish this
Operator
Microsoft
Hyperscaler self-build
AI workloads
Likely
Evidence grade
Sourced
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

Pune holds 4 active projects with 255 MW of planned IT load between them, and Microsoft Pune (Hinjewadi) has no published figure so it sits outside that ranking. Of those, 1 is operational, 1 is operational and expanding, 1 is at the land and permitting stage and 1 is announced only. Published colocation vacancy in Pune was 19.4% as of June 2025. Vacancy excludes hyperscaler self-build.

Microsoft has 3 others in India and 10 projects elsewhere in the dataset tracked by ArusGrid, including Microsoft Hyderabad Chandanvelly campus (HYD11), Microsoft Hyderabad Mekaguda campus (HYD01) and Microsoft Hyderabad Shadnagar campus (HYD04). Named funding comes from Microsoft on the equity side. The named user of the compute is Microsoft (reported, unconfirmed).

The stage was recorded as at the land and permitting stage on 11 September 2024. The money on record is INR 5.2bn (about US$62m) as of September 2024, the announced investment.

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 1 public source for this project, the latest dated 11 September 2024, and last checked the record on 19 October 2026.

How well evidenced is it

One or two hard signals sit behind the announcement. The rules are fixed and published on the Methodology page.

Named funderYes
Disclosed clientNo
Committed or approved capitalYes
Dated, sized phaseNo
Three or more sourcesNo
Dated source in the last 24 monthsNo

AI workloads

StatusLikely

Hyperscaler self-build land acquired 2024.

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

2024-09-11Land and permitting · business-standard.com

Who is behind it

OperatorMicrosoft · Hyperscaler self-build
Funder, EquityMicrosoft

Who uses the compute

Own use · hyperscalerMicrosoft · reported, unconfirmed

Self-build on 16.4 acres bought from Indo Global Infotech City LLP for Rs 519.72 crore, expanding Pune presence · as of 2024-09-14

Microsoft bought the Hinjewadi parcel for data centre expansion; Business Standard via DCD. Land purchase, no tenant named.

Source · Microsoft acquires 16-acre plot in Pune, India, for data center expansion (DCD, 2024-09-14)

Source · Microsoft acquires 16.4-acre land parcel for Rs 520 crore in Pune (Business Standard, 2024-09-11)

Money at this site

Announced investment, 2024-09INR 5.2bn (about US$62m)

The figure covers land only.

Colocation price per kW of IT load per month

An own-use build. No colocation price applies.

Land
Land sellerIndo Global Infotech City LLP · 16.4 acres · INR 519.72m (≈US$62m) · freehold · Sep 2024 Reported source ↗

Sources checked 2026-10-19

  1. Microsoft acquires Rs 520 cr land in Pune for data centre expansion plans (Business Standard, 2024-09-11)

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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.