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CoreWeave plans a 240 MW AI-cloud deployment in Navi Mumbai

By Grid & Silicon · Published October 7, 2026
Source: CoreWeave company announcement · October 7, 2026

What happened

CoreWeave says it will enter India through a planned 240-megawatt deployment at AdaniConneX's Taloja campus in Navi Mumbai, with the first phase expected in mid-2028.

What is actually planned

CoreWeave says the deployment would occupy three 80-megawatt buildings at AdaniConneX's Taloja campus. CoreWeave expects to be the sole tenant, plans to deploy Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform and says the first phase should become available in mid-2028. Additional capacity would arrive in later phases. None of the 240 megawatts is described as operating today.

The announcement also gives CoreWeave an option to expand by as much as another 240 megawatts at the campus. That would be a possible second block, not part of the committed first 240 megawatts. The release does not give a date, customer commitment or construction trigger for that option.

How the facility is meant to handle AI load

The three buildings are being designed for dense GPU halls with direct liquid cooling. A non-evaporative chilled-water system would move heat from the liquid loop without relying on continuous evaporation at the heat-rejection stage. That design can reduce operational water consumption compared with evaporative cooling, although CoreWeave did not publish expected water use, energy efficiency or rack density.

The physical campus would be supplied by AdaniConneX, while CoreWeave would install and operate its cloud platform and accelerator fleet. CoreWeave also plans a local office and hiring in India. The arrangement therefore combines real estate, power and cooling from a data-center developer with the specialized compute and software layer of an AI cloud operator.

What remains unknown

CoreWeave did not disclose the investment amount, financing structure, power source, utility connection, construction start, capacity of the mid-2028 phase or any customer contracts tied to the site. It also did not quantify how many Vera Rubin systems the 240-megawatt envelope could support.

The company said in August that it had about 4.2 gigawatts of contracted power globally, but that portfolio figure does not establish that the Navi Mumbai capacity is energized or ready for customer workloads. The next useful milestones will be construction progress, an initial megawatt delivery and disclosure of the first operating phase.

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