Hyperscale
→- What they need
- 5–20 MW blocks, sanctioned power, a believable go-live date.
- What stalls the deal
- Unproven delivery, approval risk, a thin renewables story.
Data centre advisory from land to launch
Every gigawatt starts with 1Watt.
The most expensive decisions in a data centre are made when it still looks cheap: a plot of land, a power letter, a sketch on a whiteboard. By the time the concrete arrives, the outcome is mostly decided. 1Watt works at those early, unglamorous moments and stays through design, delivery and launch, in India and across the Middle East, because every megawatt costs the same to build. The good ones are simply decided earlier.
Every watt of our experience comes from
Services
One team from land to launch.
Bring us in at any stage. Most clients arrive with one question and stay for the next.
01 / Site & Power
Site & Power
Where to build, and whether the grid will show up when you need it.
Site · Approvals · Power · Water → 02 / Design & Technical
Design & Technical
What the building can carry, and what it should be built for.
Basis of design · AI readiness · Tier → 03 / Delivery
Delivery
One owner-side voice from first pour to first load.
Procurement · PMC · Commissioning → 04 / Investment & Transactions
Investment & Transactions
Diligence, demand and deals that hold up in an investment committee.
Model · Debt · Equity · Diligence → 05 / GTM Studio
GTM Studio
Megawatts don't sell themselves. We do.
Positioning · Brand · Sales · Pipeline → 06 / Operations & AI
Operations & AI
Run it, or hand it over running, on one data platform from day one.
DCOps · NOC · SOC · AI ops →
Who we work with
Everyone at the table.
We've sat in most of the seats, so we know what the person across from you needs to hear.
Developers & Operators
- Where they are
- Land or power in hand, capacity to build and fill.
- Call when
- Power sanctioned, design about to lock, go-live 12–18 months out.
Investors
- Where they are
- Funds and family offices backing platforms and assets.
- Call when
- An acquisition, a joint venture, a growth story to test.
Asset & Landowners
- Where they are
- Powered land or buildings that may be worth more as a data centre.
- Call when
- An offer arrives, grid capacity opens up.
Enterprises
- Where they are
- BFSI, global capability centres, manufacturers.
- Call when
- A lease expires, an audit lands, the board asks for AI.
Neoclouds & AI labs
- Where they are
- GPUs on order, nowhere dense enough to land them.
- Call when
- Allocation confirmed, funding closed.
Your buyers
Three buyers. Three very different deals.
Neocloud
→- What they need
- 40–130 kW per rack, liquid cooling, fast ramp.
- What stalls the deal
- Retrofit-only density, a slow go-live, power cost.
Enterprise
→- What they need
- 250 kW–2 MW, compliance proof, managed services and DR.
- What stalls the deal
- Migration risk, missing certifications.
India, 2026
The numbers that get decided early.
₹50–75 Crper MW to build
Tier III air-cooled near ₹50 Cr; AI-ready with liquid cooling up to ₹75 Cr.
₹8.9–9.2Kper kW per month
About ₹7,100 for large wholesale up to ₹11,700 for small Mumbai deals.
~50%of capacity in Mumbai
National vacancy close to 15%; Hyderabad, NCR and Chennai lead the pipeline.
3–4 yrsfrom site to live
Approvals, build and commissioning take 27–42 months.
Indicative figures from published industry data, adjusted to 2026 where needed. Ask us for yours.
Why 1Watt
Every data centre began as a decision someone got right early. We're in the room for those decisions.
How we work
Five moves. No theatre.
- 01
The question
Bring us the decision keeping you up at night. We'll tell you fast whether we're the right people for it.
- 02
The scope
One page: what we'll answer, what you'll get, by when and on what terms. Signed before anyone opens a spreadsheet.
- 03
The work
We go to the site, the substation, the market and the buyers. You hear what we're finding while it still matters.
- 04
The answer
Not a deck of opinions. A clear call, with every finding showing what it stands on.
- 05
The long haul
We don't vanish after the readout. Oversight, GTM Studio or managed operations takes it to first load and beyond.
Got a decision on the table?
Tell us the site, the stage and the question. We'll tell you where we'd start.
How to engage
One line, or the whole lifecycle.
Buy a single service, or hand us the project from land to a leased, running facility.
01
Advisory
Fixed-scope studies and reports: market, site, feasibility and business case.
- Best for
- Investors testing the idea
02
Development manager
1Watt leads land, approvals, capital, design and build as your representative.
- Best for
- First-time data centre investors
03
Build-operate-transfer
We take the project from land to live, run it, then transfer the team and operations to you.
- Best for
- Investors who want to own the platform long term
04
Managed operations
DCOps, NOC, SOC and RevOps, run by us under SLAs.
- Best for
- Owners of completed facilities
05
Fractional leadership
An interim CEO, COO, CTO or head of sales while you build your own team.
- Best for
- Platforms building their own team
06
Success-linked mandates
Debt raising, incentives and anchor leasing, rewarded on results.
- Best for
- Investors who want pay-for-results
Talk to us
We know what buyers ask because we've been the buyer.
Developers, investors, operators and enterprises all get the same thing from us: the answer.
Talk to 1Watt →