APAC data center operator Digital Edge has broken ground on its Navi Mumbai campus in India.

In a recent LinkedIn post, the company said it had officially begun the construction of the 300MW campus.

The 47-acre site is the company’s first data center project in India, totaling an investment of $2 billion.

The first phase - dubbed BOM1 - is expected to be completed in Q1 2025, with the rest of the campus expected to be developed in later phases.

Plans for the campus were first announced in January 2023, when Digital Edge entered a partnership with the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and AGP DC InvestCo Pte Ltd to develop a pan-Indian data center portfolio. Other details have not yet been disclosed.

At the breaking ground ceremony, the company said it was adhering to health and safety, and anti-bribery and corruption policies during construction.

Digital Edge was founded by Stonepeak in August 2020. The company has acquired and developed data centers across Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Its current portfolio is comprised of more than a dozen data centers in construction or operation across the APAC region; including eight in Japan across Tokyo and Osaka; three in South Korea spanning Seoul, Busan, and Incheon; one in Manila, Philippines; and two in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Digital Edge also has a partnership with local Chinese operator Chuanjun Information Technology, establishing its PEK1 data center in Beijing. The facility offers 7.8MW of capacity.

NIIF is an Indian sovereign wealth fund set up in 2015 and focused largely on infrastructure investment. Singapore-based AGP is an asset development and investment management group focused on real estate and energy infrastructure. AGP DC is the digital infrastructure platform for AGP.

A report from DC Byte last month 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.