TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad

Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus of up to one gigawatt in Hyderabad, using green energy and water-neutral design principles. EU rules require any data centre above 500kW to report total and drinking water consumption to a European database every year.

Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI data centre campus in southern India. Bloomberg News reported the exchange filing on Saturday.

The site sits on 264 acres in Hyderabad, in Telangana, and will have a capacity of up to one gigawatt. The land is already secured, and TCS expects the campus to rank among the largest AI infrastructure sites in India.

“The campus will support frontier AI companies and hyperscalers with high-density, liquid-cooled compute infrastructure on a global scale,” the company said.

TCS also says the project will use green energy and water-neutral design principles. Neither term is defined in the filing.

The money follows a pattern. TPG put $1B into the company’s data centre business last November, part of a wider flow of foreign capital into Indian AI infrastructure through local firms.

Two of those words carry obligations in Europe that they do not carry in India, and the gap is not rhetorical.

Any data centre in the EU with at least 500kW of installed IT power must report annually to a European database, under a delegated regulation adopted in 2024.

The indicators include total water consumption and drinking water consumption, from which water usage effectiveness is calculated. Energy demand, waste heat recovery and the renewable share are in there too.

The annual deadline is 15 May. The regulation itself sets out no penalty for not filing, so the discipline is disclosure rather than enforcement.

So water-neutral design is a phrase in Hyderabad and a filed number in Frankfurt. Neither guarantees the water, but only one leaves evidence.

The scale runs the other way. Europe has opened bidding for up to seven AI gigafactories worth roughly EUR 30B, of which about EUR 10B would be public money and only around EUR 1B of Brussels’ share is committed.

Construction there is targeted for early 2027. TCS is putting $7.4B into one campus now, most of it private money rather than public.

Europe built the measuring regime first and the gigawatts second. Its own gigafactory plan has already stumbled on delays, and this filing is what the other order looks like.