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Mumbai, India, September 23, 2025- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis virtually laid the foundation stone for Amazon Web Services’ new hyperscale data centre in Mumbai today, formally kicking off a major expansion that forms part of AWS’s USD 8.3 billion investment commitment in the state. The project is a component of AWS’s broader Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) Region plan and stems from a memorandum of understanding signed at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2025.
Fadnavis performed the virtual ceremony from his official residence, Varsha, and used the occasion to underline Maharashtra’s aim to become a global data-centre hub and to highlight the state’s investor-friendly reforms, including a dedicated investment war room and streamlined approvals for large projects.
State and company officials said the Maharashtra-focused investment is expected to expand cloud capacity, support AI development locally, and strengthen digital infrastructure for enterprises, startups, and public-sector organisations across the region.
AWS said the USD 8.3 billion commitment, part of a previously announced nationwide USD 12.7 billion investment to 2030, is projected to contribute roughly USD 15.3 billion to India’s GDP and support more than 81,300 full-time jobs annually across the data-centre supply chain by 2030.
David Zapolsky, AWS senior vice-president and general counsel, said the company sees “tremendous potential for India’s digital economy” and welcomed continued collaboration with the Maharashtra government to realise the investment plan.
At the event, AWS also launched India’s first “Think Big Mobile Van” under its Mobile STEM Lab initiative, a travelling version of AWS’s Think Big education programme intended to expose Mumbai students to cloud, AI, and STEM skills. Company and state officials framed the education push as complementary to the infrastructure investment, aimed at building local talent pipelines for the expanding cloud ecosystem.
Officials said the Mumbai data-centre buildout will take place over multiple sites in the state as AWS scales capacity for cloud and AI workloads; the Maharashtra allocation is a subset of the company’s nationwide plan to expand its cloud footprint by 2030. The foundation-laying ceremony follows the Davos MoU signed on January 22, 2025, where the state and AWS outlined the terms of the long-term investment.
The announcement arrives amid intensified competition to host cloud and AI infrastructure in India, where governments and companies are racing to secure capacity, talent, and power for next-generation compute. Maharashtra officials said the AWS investment will bolster the state’s economic growth and digital inclusion goals while strengthening Mumbai’s position as a regional cloud and AI hub.
