AWS has acquired a 38.18-acre parcel of land in Palava, just outside of Mumbai from realty developer Lodha.
As reported by The Economic Times, the tech giant paid more than Rs 450 crore ($53.1m) for the site, which is set to house a data center.
Reports of the sale first surfaced in October this year.
AWS has purchased the land through a subsidiary, Amazon Data Services, and is now set to develop a facility spanning around 4.16 million sq ft (386,000 sqm).
The company has paid an initial Rs 396 crore ($46.7m) to Lodha, listed as Macrotech Developers. The balance will be paid upon completion of certain conditions.
Further details of the potential facility have not yet been shared.
Earlier this year, AWS was reportedly looking at investing an additional $2 billion in data centers in Telangana, India.
The tech giant has launched cloud regions in Hyderabad and Mumbai and is planning Local Zones in Chennai, Kolkata, and Bengaluru, with one local Zone in Delhi.
Palava City, located between Thane and Navi Mumbai, is a smart city built by real estate developer Lodha. Mumbai is home to operators such as Digital Edge, Iron Mountain, NTT, CtrlS, Nxtra, Tata, and Equinix.
A report from DC Byte earlier this year said Navi Mumbai and Central Mumbai were two rapidly emerging markets in the APAC region, and updates to Maharashtra’s IT policy have boosted data center development in the city.
