Submer Technologies S.L., a Spainish-headquartered liquid cooling solutions provider for data centres that has in recent months transitioned into building data centres, said it would enter the Indian market to build Artificial Intelligence-focused data centres in the country. The “tenants” that actually occupy and own the data centres are likely to be the Big Tech firms and hyperscalers which the firm refused to name.
“We’re eager to accelerate our manufacturing capabilities and use India as a base and hub for the whole of Asia,” Daniel Pope, the company’s founder, said in a news briefing on Thursday. The firm has committed to building up to 1 gigawatt in data centre capacity in Madhya Pradesh, having signed an MoU with the State government committing to this in July.
“India will be 10% of the global data centre market by 2030, a 300% increase from 2022,” Mr. Pope said. “You’re late to the game, so you can build greenfield data centres that are super efficient without retrofitting massive legacy infrastructure.”
The firm said that it would establish a manufacturing facility in India, and have it be a “production and export hub for Submer’s transformational cooling systems for all of Asia”. It said it would create 5,000 Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) jobs in the “coming years” as a result of these efforts.
“Submer coming to India is not an accident or luck,” Dev Tyagi, who heads Submer’s U.K. and India operations, said. “It’s by design, because the talent pool is incredible: a young population full of engineers; where else would you go in the world?”
Building data centres is typically a three-year project but CEO Patrick Smets said that the firm wanted to bring it down and be able to “build in 6–9 months,” a capability it hopes to build with a “modular roll on” effort where components would be made elsewhere and installed in the data centre, as opposed to being assembled ground-up in the data centre itself.
Published – September 25, 2025 08:49 pm IST
