Madhya Pradesh–Submer AI capacity program

Project brief

What is publicly known

Status: planned, with a low evidence threshold because the underlying document is a memorandum of understanding. In July 2025, the Government of Madhya Pradesh and Submer said they would work toward as much as one gigawatt of liquid-cooled, artificial-intelligence-ready data center capacity. They also named design standards, local supply chains, and workforce development as parts of the collaboration.

The release supports the existence of the memorandum and the scope the parties want to explore. It does not show that a site, investor, utility, tenant, or construction contract exists. The cooling relevance is real but remains conceptual.

The parties mention immersion, direct-to-chip, and hybrid cooling, and they claim the future facilities would consume no water. Those architectures have different facility, hardware, and service requirements, so naming all three does not yet define a buildable design. Madhya Pradesh also spans hot seasonal conditions.

A no-water design would need dry or hybrid heat rejection sized for the hottest hours, plus a clear power penalty. Neither duty points nor design sites are public. The largest unknown is what the one-gigawatt figure means.

It may be a ceiling across many future projects rather than committed information-technology load. No capacity is financed, permitted, ordered, or under construction in the cited source. There are no named locations, phases, grid connections, customers, budgets, or dates.

Evidence that would change the status includes a named parcel, state approval, power allocation, environmental filing, financing close, anchor customer, engineering contract, or cooling-equipment order tied to a specific phase. Ground works and construction reporting would justify deploying. Commissioned capacity with an identified operator would justify operating.

Until then, the number should never be counted as built or near-term supply.

Status is labeled from public evidence. Supplier orders, MoUs, pilots, projects under delivery, and operating sites are not counted as equivalent.