What I have built, with whom, and where it sits today. This page does not duplicate esds.co.in — it sits beside it, telling the story of the company through the lens of what its founder set out to do.
Inside one of the six operational ESDS data centres — a sovereign grid running 80% of India’s Smart Cities and 450+ banking institutions.
EnlightAIX is an end-to-end sovereign AI hyperscaler — an eight-layer, 189-module architecture purpose-built for India’s compute future. It is anchored on the original eNlight Cloud platform that we patented in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
The thesis is simple. India is one of the world’s largest digital markets, but its compute and AI infrastructure has been built on foreign rails. EnlightAIX is the answer to a question I have been asking for twenty years: what would it look like if India ran its own?
Architecture, capacity, the SAI/SharonAI sovereign GPU partnership, partner ecosystem, and product depth live on the corporate site. Explore the platform at esds.co.in →
A metro coach that quietly expands from fifty seats to four hundred during rush hour, then quietly contracts again. That is the principle. The cloud that scales itself when traffic rises — and gives the capacity back when traffic falls.
Vertical auto-scaling cloud technology. Conceived with my sister Prajakta Somani, Rishi, and Hussain Dahodwala.
UK extension of the same auto-scaling architecture, granted by the UK Intellectual Property Office.
India’s first auto-vertical scalable cloud platform with Pay-Per-Consume billing. The category was built before the market knew it needed one.
From a one-acre plot in Nashik bought in 2008 to a national grid serving 80% of India’s Smart Cities. Each centre is built to Tier III standards or better.
The plot bought in 2008 against everyone’s advice. The data centre nobody believed could be built in Nashik. Operational since 2010.
Inaugurated by then-Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis and BCCI Chairman Shri Anurag Thakur. The launch of eNlight 360° as a hybrid cloud platform.
Modern glass-façade facility serving South India enterprise & government clients.
North India operations, serving banking and government clients across the region.
NCR coverage for central government and enterprise customers.
Eastern India anchor; final go-live phase in progress through 2026.
2016 · Navi Mumbai Data Center launch · with then-CM Shri Devendra Fadnavis (centre, blue jacket), BCCI Chairman Shri Anurag Thakur, and my mother Sarala Somani.
In active build-out: Sahibabad, Ghaziabad — the ₹1,000 crore Green Data Centre with Central Electronics Limited (covered on The Movement) — and additional Bengaluru phases.
No client list is ever complete. These are organisations whose names speak for themselves.
A handful of the awards that have come to me personally, and to ESDS as a company. The work has always been larger than the recognition.