Dholera Special Investment Region
Planned industrial investment region in Gujarat, India.
Dholera Special Investment Region, a planned industrial zone in Gujarat, became the anchor site for the state's data-centre drive when policymakers named it the primary hub on 7 August.
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Why did Gujarat pick Dholera as its hub for 7.5 GW of new data centres?
Timeline for Dholera Special Investment Region
Named as the policy's primary hub
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Gujarat pays for 7.5 GW of capacityBackground
Dholera Special Investment Region is a planned industrial region inside Gujarat state, in western India. It is not a separate jurisdiction; the region sits within Gujarat's own administrative and planning structure, built as a dedicated investment zone rather than an existing town or city.
Gujarat named Dholera SIR as the anchor site for its new data-centre push on 7 August 2026. The choice reflects Dholera's standing as a purpose-built industrial zone with land and infrastructure already earmarked for large projects, rather than any data-centre-specific advantage of its own.
The underlying government notification could not be verified directly; the detail linking Dholera to the wider policy rests on wire corroboration rather than a primary document read in full.