Investment Forum | India // Opening Keynote Panel: Scaling capital for India’s next wave of data center growth

As India scales toward the gigawatt era, investors face a high-stakes landscape where traditional bank capacity is hitting its limit and land bottlenecks are tightening. This panel explores how to master billion-dollar partnerships and alternative financing to protect your margins and secure long-term growth in a complex market.

• Analyzing how billion-dollar partnerships are becoming a new blueprint for absorbing early-stage risk in gigawatt-scale development
• Organic growth or inorganic growth? How should APAC players enter the market, and what are the benefits and costs of both?
• With power and land bottlenecks increasingly affecting growth opportunities, how are leading operators and investors future-proofing their assets?
• Alternative financing strategies; leveraging private equity and private credit to bridge the liquidity gap for speculative land and power acquisition as traditional bank capacity reaches exposure limits
• Protecting margins & IRR Premiums: How to maintain the 5–7% extra profit that global investors demand to offset local market risks
• As Tier 1 hubs continue to become constrained across the region, which cities or regions are operators and investors looking at scaling, and how?
• Evolution of the asset-light model: Analyzing the financial impact on local operators as hyperscalers prioritize long-term leasing over self-builds