CtrlS Datacenters has secured approximately $26.1 million in investment from Indian entrepreneurs Nikhil Kamath and Sreeram Reddy Vanga as the company expands its data center platform to support growing AI, cloud and digital infrastructure demand. Kamath invested approximately $20.9 million in CtrlS, while Vanga invested approximately $5.2 million.
The investments add two prominent Indian entrepreneurs to the company’s investor base at a time when artificial intelligence and cloud computing are creating significantly larger infrastructure requirements.
CtrlS sees India as having an opportunity to build the capacity, scale and resilience needed to support the next phase of the country’s digital economy.
The company has spent nearly two decades developing data center infrastructure in India.
CtrlS currently operates 19 data centers across nine markets with more than 370 MW of capacity.
Beyond its existing footprint, the company has approximately 4.4 GW of data center projects at various stages of execution.
That development pipeline represents a significant expansion from CtrlS’ current operating capacity as demand grows for infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly compute-intensive workloads.
AI is becoming a particularly important driver of data center investment because training and operating advanced models requires dense computing environments, substantial power capacity and resilient connectivity.
Cloud adoption and broader digitalization are also increasing the infrastructure requirements of enterprises and technology companies across India.
CtrlS plans to use its expanding platform to address those requirements as additional capacity moves through development.
Founder and CEO Sridhar Pinnapureddy said the investments are particularly meaningful because of the alignment between the investors and CtrlS around a long-term vision for India’s digital infrastructure.
The partnership is expected to support CtrlS as it looks to accelerate development and build larger data center platforms capable of serving India’s next phase of digital and AI-driven growth.
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“CtrlS currently operates 19 data centers across nine markets with more than 370 MW of capacity.
Beyond its existing footprint, the company has approximately 4.4 GW of data center projects at various stages of execution.
That development pipeline represents a significant expansion from CtrlS’ current operating capacity as demand grows for infrastructure capable of supporting increasingly compute-intensive workloads.
AI is becoming a particularly important driver of data center investment because training and operating advanced models requires dense computing environments, substantial power capacity and resilient connectivity.”
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