By Varun Singh
Amazon Data Services recently leased a premises in Thane for 15 years which can be further extended for 14 years.
The annual rent for the first year is Rs 74.91 crore, fir the second year the rent goes up to Rs 77.15 crore, for third year the rent is Rs 79.47 crore, the fourth year the annual rent is Rs 81.85 crore, the fifth year annual rent is Rs 84.72 crore, the sixth year annual rent is 87.68 crore, the seventh year annual rent is Rs 90.75 crore, the rent for the eight year is Rs 93.93 crore, the rent for ninth year is Rs 97.22 crore, the annual rent for the 10th year is Rs 100.62 crore, the rent for 11th year is Rs 104.14 crore, whereas the rent for the 12th year is Rs 109.79 crore, it goes to Rs 111.56 crore for the 13th year and the rent moves to Rs 115.46 crore for the 14th year and the annual rent for the 15th year is Rs 119.51 crore.
The total rent comes to Rs 1426.83 crore for the 15 years including the escalation, apart from this there’s an annual operating charges is Rs 23.39 crore, thus taking the total rent and operating charges for over 15 years to Rs 1450 crore.
According to details provided by Propstack, Amazon has leased a total are of 4.5 lakh sq ft spread across ground plus seven storey building along with a terrace in Thane’s MIDC from New Found Properties.
The land was leased by MIDC for 100 years in 1966 leased to a company, a part of this land was then leased to New Found Shelters, which is building an integrated Information Technology Township. It has already completed three buildings of the phase wise development.
Earlier this year, in one of Indians big ticket lease deal, a 2.39 lakh sq.ft. of land area was leased out for a whopping Rs 3.57 crore per month for a period of 258 months. Amazon Data Services India Pvt Ltd rented a 2.39 lakh sq.ft. space for a period of 258 months in Powai. The rental figure and the rented area both are huge and and in many ways amongst the biggest rental deals for the year 2022. The premises rented is a land parcel in Powai owned by Larsen and Toubro Ltd.
“Amazon continues to ramp up their data centers in India and Mumbai has emerged as one of their preferred locations. The new data centers will allow Amazon’s domestic and global customers to utilize AWS infrastructure to securely build their businesses in India and run their applications in the cloud. Clearly the cloud services business is an important one for Amazon while it prepares to locally expand their data centers to service Indian clients instead of servicing them from counties like Singapore,” said Raja Seetharaman, co-founder, Propstack.
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