NCR Data Centre and Warehousing Statistics 2026: Capacity, Absorption and Rents

Data centre capacity in India 2026

India ended 2025 with about 1,700 MW of data centre capacity, according to CBRE's India Alternate Sectors Outlook 2026, after a record 440 MW was added during the year, 160% more than in 2024. CBRE expects about 500 MW more in 2026, which would lift stock by roughly 30%.

Other counts differ because they measure different things. The Ministry of Electronics and IT told Parliament in March 2026 that capacity rose from 375 MW in 2020 to over 1,500 MW in 2025. Savills India puts operational stock at 1.8 GW of IT load by H1 2026, after 258 MW was added in the first half alone. Colliers counted 1,263 MW across the top seven cities in April 2025, covering co-location facilities only.

The forecasts all point the same way. Colliers expects the top seven cities to cross 4,500 MW by 2030, needing about 55 million sq ft of real estate. Savills goes further, at over 7 GW of IT load by 2030.

How much data centre capacity does Delhi NCR have?

Delhi-NCR and Noida had 76 MW of operational data centre capacity in 2025, according to figures presented in the Lok Sabha by Minister of State Jitin Prasada in March 2026. That compares with 790 MW for Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, 305 MW for Chennai, 182 MW for Bengaluru and 152 MW for Hyderabad.

Industry figures put NCR higher. Colliers gave Delhi NCR a 14% share of 1,263 MW in April 2025, which works out to roughly 177 MW on its co-location basis. The gap is mostly definitional: what counts as NCR, whether captive and enterprise facilities are included, and whether capacity is built or live. We show the government number as the headline because it is the official one, but NCR is clearly a smaller market than Mumbai or Chennai on every count.

Demand is catching up faster than supply. Savills found Delhi-NCR took 22% of India's 278 MW of data centre absorption in H1 2026, third behind Mumbai at 38% and Chennai at 26%. Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi-NCR and Bengaluru together hold nearly 90% of established tier-I capacity, per CBRE.

Data centres in Gurugram, Manesar and Noida: who is building what

The biggest Haryana-side operator with published numbers is Anant Raj, a listed Delhi-NCR developer. Its August 2026 investor presentation shows 28 MW of IT load live in FY26, 21 MW at Manesar and 7 MW at Panchkula, with a further 35 MW targeted at Manesar and Rai. It plans 117 MW by FY28 and 357 MW by FY32, including 200 MW at Rai, under a Haryana MoU covering ₹25,000 crore of investment and 307 MW.

On the Uttar Pradesh side, Greater Noida and Noida host the larger hyperscale campuses. Yotta's D1 in Greater Noida opened in 2022 with 28.8 MW of IT load at a cost of about ₹1,500 crore, as the first of six buildings in a 20-acre park planned for 160 MW. Sify's Noida 02 campus has 25.92 MW of IT power with its own 220 kV substation.

For homebuyers, the takeaway is modest. Data centres employ few people per megawatt, so they do not create housing demand the way an office park does. What they do signal is power and fibre investment, and Manesar's growing cluster adds to the case for the Southern Peripheral Road and Sohna belts as employment corridors.

NCR warehousing market: stock, leasing and vacancy

NCR had 117.8 mn sq ft of industrial and warehousing stock at H1 2026, 20% of the national total and second only to Mumbai, according to Knight Frank. Vacancy was 13.4%. Only 39% of NCR stock is Grade A, one of the lowest shares among major markets, because so much of it predates the move to compliant, institutional-grade sheds.

Leasing hit a post-pandemic high in 2025. Knight Frank recorded 12.2 mn sq ft of transactions in NCR in 2025, up 32% from 9.2 mn sq ft in 2024, led by manufacturing, third-party logistics and e-commerce occupiers such as Amazon, Blue Dart and DB Schenker. H1 2026 added 5.9 mn sq ft, up 17% year on year.

JLL tells a softer story for 2026. On its gross-area basis, NCR net absorption fell 10% to 3.7 mn sq ft in H1 2026 while new supply rose 18.4% to 5.8 mn sq ft, pushing vacancy from 19.5% to 20.4%. JLL still expects stock to cross 120 mn sq ft by end-2026 and vacancy to fall below 15% by 2030. The two firms use different definitions, so compare trends within one source, not levels across them.

Warehousing rents and land prices in Gurugram, Manesar and Sohna

Grade A warehouse rents on NH-48 between Gurugram and Binola ran at ₹22 to ₹27 per sq ft per month in 2025, the highest of the Haryana belts in Knight Frank's survey. Pataudi Road, Jamalpur-Panchgaon Road and the Bilaspur-Tauru-Sohna Road all sat at ₹21 to ₹23 for Grade A and ₹18 to ₹20 for Grade B.

Land is where the money is. Knight Frank put warehouse land on NH-48 at ₹4 to ₹6 crore per acre, Farrukhnagar at ₹4 to ₹5 crore and the Sohna and Pataudi belts at ₹3 to ₹4 crore. Noida and Greater Noida have no large parcels left, which is why the Haryana side keeps taking the bulk of new supply.

The NH-48 and Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway cluster took 77% of NCR warehousing transactions in 2025, the same share as in 2024. Across the region, average rent was ₹22.6 per sq ft per month in H1 2026, up 5% on a year earlier, while JLL measured ₹23.2 with yields at 7.7%.

How NCR warehousing compares with other cities

NCR is the second-largest warehousing market in India by both leasing and stock. In H1 2026 Mumbai led with 10.7 mn sq ft of transactions against NCR's 5.9 mn sq ft, out of 36.8 mn sq ft nationally, per Knight Frank.

NCR rents are mid-table. At ₹22.6 per sq ft per month in H1 2026 they sit below Pune at ₹28.7, Mumbai and Kolkata at ₹26.0 and Chennai at ₹25.7, which keeps the region attractive to cost-sensitive third-party logistics firms.