Data Centre & AI Infrastructure
Hyperscaler buildout in India — picks and shovels
Data Centre & AI Infrastructure vs Nifty 500
Weekly basket performance over the latest 52 observations. Green is ahead of Nifty 500; red is behind.
- Theme return
- -21.6%
- Nifty 500
- -7.0%
- Vs Nifty 500
- -15.7%
- Latest coverage
- 2/2
Fewer than five constituents have adequate aligned history, so treat this plot as preliminary evidence.
How this plot is calculated
The theme line is green when its cumulative rebased performance is above Nifty 500 and red when it is below. The chart callout shows the latest relative performance as the theme level divided by the benchmark level, minus one.
The basket uses the theme's current reviewed companies. For each available week, we calculate every valid constituent's close-to-close return and give each company the same weight. If a weekly rollup is missing or lags the daily series, the final available daily close in that week is used.
For baskets with at least 10 valid stocks, the highest and lowest 5% of weekly returns are trimmed to reduce split, corporate-action, and single-stock distortions. Weekly basket returns are then compounded and rebased to 100 beside the Nifty 500.
Breadth is the share of valid constituents that rose that week. Coverage is the number with usable aligned prices divided by current membership. Weekly moves above 80% are excluded as likely data or corporate-action outliers.
Limitation: this is a current-membership historical reconstruction, not a point-in-time investable index. It can contain survivorship bias and excludes costs, liquidity impact, dividends, and rebalancing turnover.
Model note: Current-member weekly equal-weight returns (5% tails trimmed for baskets of 10+), compounded and rebased to 100 against Nifty 500; lagging weekly rollups are patched with the final available daily close, and rotation uses 13-week excess return with four-week acceleration.
Theme scorecard
Measures whether this idea is investable today by blending cohort quality, valuation cushion, and price momentum. It is a research filter, not advice.
Thesis
Meta, Microsoft, Google, and AWS have committed >USD 20 bn to Indian data centre capacity through 2030, aided by localisation rules from the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. Direct listed DC plays are few (Anant Raj, CtrlS — unlisted). Better exposure comes from the supplier layer: servers / storage (Netweb, Cyient DLM), cooling + power infra, and EMS anchors that qualify for the enclosures.
- ▸USD 20 bn+ committed DC capex through 2030
- ▸DPDP Act pushes data localisation — regulatory tailwind
- ▸Pure-play DC owners mostly unlisted — invest via suppliers
- ▸Cooling + power remains the pick-and-shovel sweet spot
Top picks · ranked by U-Score within this cohort
Server + HPC systems; recently listed, direct AI-compute supplier
High-end EMS — cooling, enclosures, power electronics