Kotak Data Center
Fund

Kotak Data Center Fund provides investors with the unique opportunity to participate in the growth story of Data Centers, which serve as the nerve centre of digital infrastructure.

Capitalising on India's emerging digital infrastructure

India has emerged as the global leader in the data revolution. It has the highest data consumption per mobile user, backed by a unique digital payment interface, the lowest-cost mobile data tariffs, and increased smartphone penetration. Kotak Data Center Fund provides investors with the unique opportunity to participate in the growth story of Data Centers, which serve as the nerve centre of digital infrastructure.

Pioneering India’s Data hub ascent

In the rapidly evolving information technology landscape, data centers stand as the central hubs powering the digital infrastructure that fuels our interconnected world. These critical facilities play a pivotal role in processing, storing, and managing vast amounts of data, enabling the seamless functioning of applications, services, and emerging technologies.

The demand for data centers is witnessing an explosion due to advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, edge computing, increased usage of IoT, and enterprise adoption of hybrid computing.

Indian Data Center market has demonstrated both quality and scalability. It successfully services global hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle and has also scaled up from a sub 300MW market a few years ago to more than 1 GW by 2023. The Indian DC industry is also leading in terms of providing sustainable DC solutions with rapid expansion in renewable energy tie-ups.

Future-Forward: Transformative Investments in Data Infrastructure

At Kotak Data Center Fund, we focus on partnering with industry leaders and innovators to build out the next-generation digital infrastructure. Our team has experience investing in some of the leading DC players in India (Netmagic, NTT and Sify).

Our expertise extends through the entire data center lifecycle, encompassing a keen awareness of evolving trends, potential challenges, and burgeoning opportunities within the sector. We engage proactively with our investee companies, guiding their build-out strategies from the ground up. This includes identifying locations, negotiating with landowners, architecting state-of-the-art facilities, forging connections with key customers (including hyper-scale and enterprise clients), and significantly enhancing business value at every step.

Furthering our sustainability initiative, we are focused on helping our partners develop renewable energy sources, design and build energy-efficient data centers, and continuously improve power and water usage efficiencies. We provide a holistic focus on building sustainable data centres.

We are at the forefront of India's digital transformation, offering investors unique, high-growth opportunities in sustainable data centres.

Our Strategic Pathway for Data Infrastructure Evolution

Platform Partnerships:

Fuelling operator expansion at the platform level.
Asset Collaborations:

Backing greenfield expansions at the asset level.
Joint Ventures:

Build out data center platforms in liaison with operators.
Strategic Acquisitions:

Buying and upgrading existing or in-progress facilities.

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Kotak Data Center
Fund

Capitalising on India's emerging digital infrastructure

Pioneering India’s Data hub ascent

Future-Forward: Transformative Investments in Data Infrastructure

Our Strategic Pathway for Data Infrastructure Evolution

Platform Partnerships:

Asset Collaborations:

Joint Ventures:

Strategic Acquisitions:

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Funds: CIIF (Core Infrastructure India Fund)

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