Is the data centre under construction?

The agreement dates to February 2026 with operations framed around 2028; construction-phase milestones will be logged as they occur. As of this entry, treat it as contracted pipeline.

Why would an AI data centre choose Dholera over a metro?

Power, land and policy: hyperscale campuses optimise for megawatts and acreage, not office adjacency. Dholera's solar-adjacent, master-planned pitch is built for the species.

Does this create many local jobs?

Construction phases, substantially; steady operations, modestly but high-value. Its bigger economic role is anchoring the corridor's next industrial identity alongside semiconductors.

Update · 20 February 2026

L&T Vyoma data centre signed

Transmission equipment at a Dholera SIR power substation — Inside the SIR's power substation · Source: DSIRDA / DICDL (dholera.gujarat.gov.in)

The event: on 20 February 2026, an agreement between Larsen & Toubro and Vyoma for an AI-ready green data centre at Dholera was confirmed via the government's NewsOnAir: Rs 25,000 cr, 250 MW, operations around 2028. Label: green for the agreement's existence and stated figures (government-published), with execution milestones to be logged as they occur. This entry also marks where Dholera's data-centre lane graduated from policy talk to a named, sized deal.

Before February 2026, Dholera's data-centre story was a policy aspiration; after, it had a balance-sheet-grade name on it. The entry, in proportion.

What 250 MW means in plain terms

Data-centre scale is measured in power, and 250 MW is hyperscale country: campuses of that class serve national AI and cloud workloads, draw multi-hundred-crore annual power bills, and choose sites the way heavy industry does: land at scale, power at scale, fibre, and policy warmth. Dholera's pitch (contiguous SIR land, the sanctioned 1,000 MW solar phase next door, Activation Area fibre trunk, a state policy naming it primary location) reads like a checklist written for exactly this tenant, which is presumably how the agreement found its address.

The tier discipline, applied to a hot sector

India's 2026 data-centre boom breeds number inflation, and Dholera attracts its share: policy targets (Gujarat's Rs 6 lakh cr, 7.5 GW state-wide framework) get retold as Dholera commitments, and one traceability-challenged Rs 83,000 cr figure circulates that our sourcing declines to headline. The ledger this site keeps: agreed and government-published, Rs 25,000 cr L&T Vyoma; reported interest, logged amber; policy ambitions, labelled targets. The data-centre page holds the full tiering.

The buyer translation

Construction employment through the build years, lean-but-real operations employment after, and a second brand-name proof (after the fab) that serious capital finds Dholera's infrastructure spec credible. Thesis-strengthening, position-neutral: no plot deserves a data-centre premium, and the corridor deserves the added confidence.

L&T Vyoma data centre signed

What 250 MW means in plain terms

The tier discipline, applied to a hot sector

The buyer translation

Keep reading

Talk to the desk