TCS HyperVault Signs 1GW AI Campus MoU in Hyderabad at ₹70,000 Crore
TCS HyperVault, a subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services, exchanged MoUs with the Telangana state government on September 5 to develop a 1GW AI data centre campus at Bharat Future City in Hyderabad. The committed investment is ₹70,000 crore — approximately $8.3B at current rates — making it the largest single AI infrastructure pledge in India by a domestic company.
The campus is designed from the ground up for frontier AI clients. Named targets include OpenAI, hyperscalers, and global enterprise teams running large-scale AI training and inference. HyperVault will build in phases against contracted demand rather than ahead of it, a capital discipline approach that distinguishes the project from speculative land banking.
Specs
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Site area | 264 acres |
| Peak IT load | 1GW |
| Cooling | Liquid-cooled, high-density GPU racks |
| Workloads | AI training, inference, advanced compute |
| Jobs created | ~7,000 direct and indirect |
| Location | Bharat Future City, Hyderabad, Telangana |
The facility will run larger power blocks and faster deployment sequences compared with standard enterprise data centres. Green energy sourcing and water-neutral operation are built into the design specification.
How Telangana Won the Deal
Telangana was chosen over five competing Indian states. The genesis was a conversation between TCS chairman N Chandrasekaran and CM A Revanth Reddy at Davos in January 2026. IT minister D Sridhar Babu said the state moved “at speed and with clarity of process” to meet TCS’s timeline expectations. State officials described it as one of the largest private-sector data centre commitments involving a state government in India.
TCS CEO K Krithivasan positioned HyperVault within TCS’s “Infrastructure-to-Intelligence” strategy — selling purpose-built compute infrastructure alongside cloud, engineering, and enterprise AI transformation services, rather than just renting rack space.
India’s AI Infrastructure Footprint, Sept 2026
The Hyderabad campus lands in a crowded quarter for Indian AI infrastructure commitments:
- Google (Andhra Pradesh, Aug 2026): $15B, three sites, 601 acres, TPU + GPU, subsea cable connectivity
- L&T / Together AI (Chennai, Aug 2026): India’s first 10,000-GPU NVLink cluster in a single facility
HyperVault’s 1GW target sits above all of these by raw power. The difference is that it remains a phased commitment tied to demand rather than a fully contracted build schedule. Actual deployed capacity will lag the headline figure until tenant agreements are in place.
For contracted-capacity discipline as a model, the closer international comparison is Cerebras / Compute Nordic’s 165MW facility in Mikkeli, Finland — committed on seven-year terms rather than ahead of signed tenants. HyperVault is applying the same logic at a different scale.
HyperVault CEO Deepesh Kiran Nanda did not disclose which phase of construction begins first or the timeline for the initial 50–100MW deployment. Given TCS’s existing hyperscaler relationships — AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure are all major TCS managed-services clients — early tenant anchoring appears structurally likely without being confirmed.