Officials Inspect Proposed Site for BIDA Data Centre Cluster in Jhansi

What happened on site and in the meeting

A team led by Manoj Kumar Singh inspected the proposed site for the data centre cluster on Thursday and was briefed on several aspects of the project. The visit was followed by a meeting in the hall of the Commissioner's office in Jhansi, where the discussion covered development and implementation issues.

The reports describe the step as preparation picking up pace. The visit and meeting show that officials are moving from planning toward the practical work of readying the land and the project for development.

How the cluster fits the wider BIDA plan

The data centre cluster is a follow-up to the 1,000-acre data centre and IT hub plan for the BIDA area, reported on 20 October 2026. That plan was part of a wider industrial city covering 56,662 acres across 33 villages. The authority's documents describe a cluster-based approach, which covers sectors including data centres, IT, chemicals and others.

• Proposed data centre and IT hub: 1,000 acres
• Land secured for the hub: 810 acres, as reported in October 2026
• Activation area identified: about 2,320 acres, of which 1,000 acres are proposed for development

Reports on the visit frame the cluster as a boost to investment and employment in Bundelkhand, one of the state's least industrialised regions.

Where BIDA stands as of October 2026

BIDA is a Uttar Pradesh government authority building a planned industrial city on the outskirts of Jhansi. The area was notified on 14 September 2023 under the UP Industrial Area Development Act, 1976. The BIDA board approved the Master Plan 2045 in October 2025, and detailed sector and zonal planning continues.

Land acquisition is ongoing. As of 1 October 2026, 28,874 acres had been acquired out of the 56,662 acres approved for phased acquisition, which is split into 35,298 acres in phase one and 21,364 acres in phase two. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change granted environmental clearance to the project on 2 June 2026.

Statewide, official data put Uttar Pradesh's investment pipeline at about ₹7.35 lakh crore across roughly 7,000 proposals. Data centres account for about ₹1.80 lakh crore of that total. Bundelkhand's share is over ₹80,000 crore across 90 projects.

What comes next

The reports published so far describe site preparation and review meetings. They do not yet point to a completed cluster. The next steps the public record points to are the detailed development of the proposed site and the implementation issues raised at the Jhansi meeting.

Readers should note that investor names, the cluster's exact size and a firm timeline have not yet been set out publicly. Any future announcement on these points would show whether the cluster moves from proposal toward approval and construction.