Funding the 14GW Build-Out: Bankability and India's Data Centre Growth

India's data centre industry stands at a pivotal moment. With national capacity expected to expand from approximately 1.5 GW today toward a projected 14 GW by FY2035, the sector will require unprecedented levels of capital deployment across land, power infrastructure, cooling systems, digital connectivity, and hyperscale facilities. As demand accelerates from AI workloads, cloud adoption, enterprise digitisation, and data localisation requirements, the industry's next phase of growth will depend as much on financing innovation as on technological capability. This closed-door executive roundtable brings together lenders, infrastructure investors, private credit funds, developers, operators, and industry stakeholders to examine what makes a data centre project truly bankable in the Indian market. The discussion will explore how financial institutions assess risk, the evolving appetite for data centre assets, the importance of power readiness and anchor tenancy, and the financing structures needed to support large-scale capacity expansion.