Plenary Session
Welcome to W.Media’s Chennai Cloud & Data Center Convention 2025!
Chennai continues to grow as a hub city for data centres in the Asia Pacific and to consolidate its position as one of India’s three largest data centre locations. It shares a number of driving factors with other key markets in India – the numbers of organisations and individuals embarking on their digital journey, the roll-out of new cloud regions and the emerging requirements associated with AI and ML. The local ecosystem – data centre and cloud providers, manufacturers and vendors, consultants and educators – is evolving to supply and enable that journey. The ongoing Digital India programme continues to create a broad level of support and awareness on a national basis and continuing State Government support and initiatives will keep Tamil Nadu at the forefront of these trends.
Chennai and Tamil Nadu will represent a key focus for digital interests. Major providers continue to invest in the region, and investments are being made (and considered) into larger campus-style data centre developments which offer the necessary capacity for future growth. Tamil Nadu’s economic success is based on a heritage of commerce, manufacturing and industry and this means that different variants of digital infrastructure will play a role in meeting future local requirements. The growing relationship with nations in South East Asia will also consolidate Chennai’s role as a key landing point for cables to and from those nations.
The W.Media Convention will look closely at how data centres and cloud in Chennai are moving forward, at their role in the State’s growth and also at the resources required to build and operate the necessary infrastructure moving forward.
