Cortex DC, the artificial intelligence (AI) first subsidiary of The Chatterjee Group (TCG) is foraying into the data centre space after careful preparation. Built to serve hyperscalers, cloud service providers and advanced AI workloads, the company plans to develop 2 gigawatts (GW) of capacity across India to meet rising demand for high-performance computing driven by AI and cloud adoption.
The platform has been in development over the past several months, and its site, power and partner workstreams are already advanced. Cortex DC is built on three priorities: speed, scale and sustainable power. The company is targeting operational readiness for its first data centre within 18 months of first shovel, an accelerated timeline aimed at meeting growing demand for AI-ready infrastructure, hypercompute capability and data consumption. It also plans to source 51 per cent of its energy from green sources, building renewable energy into its infrastructure strategy from the outset.
With a clear development roadmap, an experienced leadership team and a supporting board already in place, Cortex DC is positioned to deliver large-scale, AI-ready data centre infrastructure. It draws on TCG’s global experience in engineering, energy, technology and large-scale project execution.
Commenting on the development, Dr Purnendu Chatterjee, founder and chairman, TCG, said, “Every economic era is built on a foundation. The industrial age rested on steel and energy; the intelligence age will rest on compute. For three decades, TCG has built knowledge-based businesses through strategic long-term investments, with an overriding focus on value creation. Cortex DC extends that philosophy to the digital backbone of the Intelligence Age. We are building it with speed, at scale and with a commitment to responsible energy, in the belief that India’s economic development will be shaped by the infrastructure it builds today.”
Meanwhile, Rahul Sharma, chief executive officer, Cortex DC, said, “Cortex DC is being built in India for the globe, set up to serve both local and global customers. It aims to deliver the scale, resilience, power availability, and connectivity that international enterprises, cloud service providers, and AI innovators demand. Our ambition is to provide globally competitive, AI-ready infrastructure that establishes India as a premier destination for the world’s most demanding compute workloads. We see Cortex DC as a catalyst of India’s emergence as a global AI and digital infrastructure hub.”
Further, Vinayak Pai, chair of the board, Cortex DC, said, “Every major leap in economic growth has been carried by infrastructure, from railways and ports to the internet. AI is the next such layer, and India has the talent, the market and the ambition to lead it. Cortex DC is being built as a long-term partner in that journey, bringing global standards of engineering and governance to infrastructure that will anchor India’s digital economy and attract the world’s technology leaders to build here.”