Mumbai/New Delhi, Jan. 21 -- Larsen and Toubro Ltd expects its billion-dollar bet on data centres to pay off, banking on its ability to control costs by owning land, physical infrastructure and servers. India's largest engineering and construction company believes this end-to-end ownership will allow it to offer some of the cheapest services to clients, even as demand for data centres accelerates alongside the global push into artificial intelligence.

In an interview with Mint, Prashant Jain, head of corporate centre at L&T, reiterated the advantage of the L&T Group, which expects to scale up its data centre capacity from the current 32 megawatt (MW) to 200MW by 2030.

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