Indian conglomerate Tata has officially launched a business entity to conduct its 1GW data center build-out.

The name of this entity, HyperVault AI Data Center Limited, was revealed as part of Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) October 30 filing with the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

TCS is Tata’s technology wing, and HyperVault is its wholly owned subsidiary. TCS owns all of HyperVault’s shares, which has been seeded with INR 75 million ($845,000) in initial capital.

The existence of HyperVault was announced during TCS’ Q2 2025 results on October 9, but further details, including the company’s name, were hitherto unknown.

TCS stated on an earnings call that the business would have a separate management team and explicitly focus on building colocated sovereign AI data centers for AI providers, ‘deep-tech companies,’ hyperscalers, the Indian government, and Indian enterprises.

K. Krithivasan, TCS’ CEO and managing director, said that the company “was not expecting [TCS’] overseas customers to be hosted… It’s more like what we are offering for these hyperscalers and India-based businesses or deep tech.”

TCS estimates that every 150MW of buildout will require around $1 billion worth of capex, which roughly amounts to $6.6bn in total capex for the total 1GW. Krithivasan added that the company expects to complete this buildout within a period of five to seven years at a uniform cadence, with the possibility of acceleration if demand increases.

The current data center footprint of TCS, one of the largest technology companies in the world, is unclear. Its sister company, Tata Communications reportedly operates around 22 data centers in 16 markets across five countries: India, the UK, Singapore, Portugal, and the US.

India is a growth market for data centers, with the majority of its facilities concentrated in major urban centers including Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Bangalore.

According to DC Byte’s April 2025 report on India’s data center market, the country’s live capacity only constituted 14 percent, or 1.2GW, of the total 8.9GW of supply. The remaining 86 percent is made up by projects that are under construction, committed, and in their early stages, with the latter category constituting 57 percent of the total supply.

In November 2024, a report published by JLL estimated that the country’s data center capacity would surge 66 percent by 2026. Hyperscalers have taken a clear interest in the region: Microsoft is set to launch a new cloud region in Hyderabad by 2026, and Google is looking to spend $15bn on data centers and digital infrastructure in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh.

The country has been notably receptive to the use of AI, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stating in February that India had become OpenAI’s second-largest market by number of users.

Tata previously operated several data centers across India and Singapore via Tata Communications, but sold a majority stake in both countries to STT Telemedia’s STT GDC around 2017.

The Tata Group was founded as a trading company back in the 1860s by members of the Tata family. Tata Consultancy Services Limited, originally known as Tata Computer Systems, was established in 1968 by initially providing punch cards to sister company TISCO (now Tata Steel).