Brookfield sees 6.5 GW of AI data-centre capacity coming online in India

SINGAPORE, July 28 (Reuters) - Brookfield Asset Management expects about 6.5 gigawatts of data-centre capacity for artificial intelligence to ‌come online in India over the next five years, ‌a senior executive said on Tuesday.

• Brookfield, a New York-based global alternative asset ​manager, expects AI inferencing demand in India to grow, Arpit Agrawal, managing partner and head of India and the Middle East for Brookfield's infrastructure group, said.

• AI inference is when trained ‌AI models generate answers, ⁠content or predictions. The 6.5 gigawatt estimate refers to India's wider data centre market, not Brookfield's own ⁠planned capacity.

• India currently has about 1.5 gigawatts of installed data centre capacity, almost all for uses other than AI, Agrawal ​said. Brookfield ​expects non-AI capacity to rise ​to about 3 gigawatts, ‌in addition to new AI-related demand, he added.

• Brookfield's Digital Connexion venture has about 160 megawatts of data-centre capacity in India, of which 60 megawatts is operational and fully leased, Agrawal said. It is building the remaining capacity, he added.

• The ‌venture is a partnership between Brookfield, U.S.-listed ​Digital Realty and Reliance Industries.

• Meanwhile, ​Brookfield's India energy platforms ​expect to add about 4 gigawatts to 4.5 ‌gigawatts of renewable capacity this year, ​Nawal Saini, managing ​partner in Brookfield's Energy Group, said.

• Brookfield manages more than $32 billion of assets across its strategies in India. It ​said in May ‌2025 it aimed to more than triple that figure ​to more than $100 billion within five years.

(Reporting by Yantoultra ​Ngui, Editing by Louise Heavens)