Airtel plans 56 edge data centres in two years urging India tariff overhaul for fairer pricing

Airtel wants land and Mumbai demand to drive a gigawatt bid

Bharti Airtel plans to build 56 edge data centres in the next 18 to 24 months, with executive vice chairman Gopal Vittal calling for major infrastructure investment to differentiate over the next 2 to 3 decades. He also said India’s tariff architecture is “broken,” where higher-income users pay too little and lower-income users pay too much. Airtel’s strategy is backed by rising capex, fibre expansion, and scaling its non-banking financial services, including a planned Rs 20,000 crore investment.