Pranav Hotkar
New Delhi, September 4, 2025- Japanese developer Daibiru Corporation, a subsidiary of shipping giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), is ramping up its real estate footprint in India. The firm, which has already poured around rupees 2,000 crore into premium office spaces in Gurugram and Chennai, is now shifting attention to the booming data centre market, spurred by rising digitisation and strict data-localisation norms.
Daibiru’s first project in India was Atrium Place, where it invested about rupees 1,000 crore (around USD 123.5 million) in a Grade A+ office complex in Gurugram’s Central Business District. Developed in collaboration with DLF and global real estate manager Hines, the project boasts four sleek, modern towers spanning roughly 2.88 million square feet.
Together, Daibiru and Hines set up the Daibiru Hines Trust in GIFT City, Gujarat, to fuel similar commercial real estate bets across India.
Now, according to a senior company executive, Daibiru is actively exploring India’s fast-growing data centre sector, alongside office opportunities in major hubs like Mumbai and Pune. This strategic move aligns well with broader market dynamics: India’s data centre capacity, which stood at about 950 MW in 2023, is expected to nearly double to 1,800 MW by 2026, fueled by cloud adoption, OTT services, and tightened data storage rules.
While Daibiru is also considering ventures in residential developments and creating greenfield projects, the company has made a clear decision to stay out of the warehousing segment. Their focus remains on Grade-A+ commercial properties, both traditional office real estate and emerging digital infrastructure opportunities, like data centres.
At this stage, Daibiru hasn’t revealed how much it plans to invest in data centres or the project timelines. But the company’s strategy is unmistakable: to ride India’s accelerating digital transformation and meet surging demand for secure, local data storage.
As the country pushes deeper into the digital age, investments like these could help shape the infrastructure backbone for the future.
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