Trentar Private Limited, the technology and infrastructure arm of Dorf Ketal Group, is planning a major expansion into India’s data center market with a proposed Rs 30,000 crore (US$ 3.3 billion) investment in Maharashtra. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Maharashtra to develop a 500 MW green integrated hyperscale data center project in the state. The proposed development places Trentar directly into the race to build infrastructure capable of supporting the rapidly expanding demand for AI, cloud computing and high-performance computing. More importantly, the size of the planned investment signals how quickly India’s digital infrastructure requirements are moving from conventional cloud capacity toward power-intensive compute infrastructure.

Trentar exchanged the MoU with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis during the Invest Maharashtra initiative. Under the agreement, the Maharashtra government will coordinate relevant permissions, registrations, approvals, clearances and incentives in line with prevailing policies and regulations. The arrangement gives the project a formal pathway through the state’s investment framework, although the MoU itself does not represent a final construction or financing commitment. The next stage will depend on detailed feasibility work, design decisions, approvals and the infrastructure required to support a 500 MW deployment.

Trentar Puts Modular Infrastructure At The Core

Trentar says the project will use its capabilities across energy storage, power systems, resource management and digital technologies. That combination matters because a 500 MW data center platform requires more than server halls: it needs a coordinated power, cooling, water and energy architecture capable of expanding alongside compute demand. The company intends to build a modular data center campus designed around rapid deployment and scalable growth. This approach could allow capacity to come online in stages rather than requiring the entire planned footprint to reach operational readiness at once.

“Maharashtra has laid a strong foundation for India’s digital economy, and we are proud to contribute to the State’s next phase of growth. For more than three decades, our Group has delivered complex, mission-critical infrastructure through engineering excellence and operational discipline. We will bring that experience to a modular Data Center campus built for rapid deployment and scalable growth, with sustainability, advanced technology and cost efficiency at its core,” said Subodh Menon, Trentar Private Limited Founder and Vice Chairman.

The modular strategy also reflects a broader shift in how developers approach large AI infrastructure projects. Instead of treating a hyperscale facility as a single fixed build, operators increasingly need infrastructure that can respond to changing rack densities, power requirements and customer deployment schedules. Trentar’s proposed model therefore puts scalability alongside sustainability and cost efficiency rather than treating those objectives as separate engineering problems. That could become particularly important as AI workloads push data center power requirements well beyond traditional enterprise and cloud architectures.

Renewable Power And Water Efficiency Shape Project

Power sourcing will be another defining feature of the proposed development. Trentar aims to source 51 percent of the data center’s power requirements from renewable sources, creating a renewable-energy component within the project’s operating model. The company will also evaluate treated-water reuse and water-efficient cooling technologies as part of the project’s detailed design and feasibility studies. Those decisions could materially influence the facility’s operating economics because cooling and electricity will become increasingly important cost and resource constraints as compute density rises.

The company has not yet disclosed the final cooling architecture, renewable procurement structure, construction schedule or detailed power-delivery configuration. Those details will determine how the project translates its green positioning into measurable operating performance. In particular, the distinction between renewable power procurement and the physical availability of firm power will matter for a facility targeting hundreds of megawatts of capacity. The eventual engineering model will need to align generation, grid capacity, energy storage, cooling and workload requirements rather than optimizing each component independently.

500MW Platform Targets AI And HPC Demand

Trentar positions the planned data center as a cornerstone of its broader digital infrastructure platform. The company expects the facility to provide a scalable backbone for artificial intelligence, cloud computing, high-performance computing and other data-intensive applications. India’s expanding demand for large-scale data processing is creating a market where hyperscale capacity increasingly needs to accommodate workloads with substantially different power and cooling profiles. AI and machine learning workloads, in particular, are pushing operators toward higher-density infrastructure and more sophisticated thermal-management systems.

The 500 MW ambition also places the project within the larger infrastructure race unfolding across India. Developers, cloud providers, infrastructure investors and power companies are all looking to secure the electricity, land and technical infrastructure required to support the next generation of compute. Maharashtra remains one of the country’s most important digital infrastructure markets, giving Trentar access to an established technology and industrial ecosystem while also creating intense competition for power and other critical resources. The project’s eventual competitiveness will therefore depend not only on its headline capacity, but on how efficiently Trentar can convert that capacity into reliable, deployable compute.

Maharashtra Becomes Critical To Trentar’s Compute Strategy

The MoU gives Trentar a foothold in a market where data center growth increasingly intersects with energy infrastructure. A 500 MW project represents a significant long-term infrastructure proposition, particularly when the developer also intends to integrate renewable energy, storage, resource management and water-efficiency measures. The project’s success will ultimately rest on execution: securing the required infrastructure, completing feasibility studies, obtaining approvals and translating the modular design into operational capacity. For Trentar, the Maharashtra agreement marks a move beyond individual technology capabilities toward a vertically integrated digital infrastructure platform built around the economics of large-scale compute.