That's more than the 100 greenfield centres India added in all of 2025. The surge is rewriting the global capability centre map and intensifying battles for talent and office space.
A global capability centre is an in-house unit that owns product, engineering, cybersecurity, cloud and AI work. Global boards now chase "innovation arbitrage", not just labour-cost savings of 40–60%.
Of the 111 new centres, 65 came from US-headquartered firms. Engineering research and development now accounts for about 56% of overall Indian GCC revenue, signalling a shift to high-value work.
Hyderabad captured 40 of 111 new centres, or 36%, eclipsing Bengaluru in the 2026 greenfield race. Pune added 18 and Chennai added 8. Bengaluru still dominates brownfield expansions and existing scale with over 900 operational GCCs.
India’s top seven cities leased 35.7 million square feet of Grade A space in H1 2026, up 6% year-on-year. GCCs took a record 9.1 million square feet in Q1 2026, tightening vacancy to about 13.7–14.5%.
Traditional IT services cut more than 128,000 jobs globally in 2026, with 25,000–35,000 in India. GCCs are projected to add over 120,000 specialised tech roles by year-end, pulling roughly 23% of laterals from IT services.
The 111 greenfield centres are projected to create 70,000–75,000 highly skilled jobs and generate USD 2.5–2.8 billion in annualised revenue and foreign-exchange impact. India’s GCC sector generated USD 64.6 billion before this surge.
With clients insourcing, Indian IT firms now sell GCC setup and management. TCS, Infosys and Wipro launched dedicated verticals. The broader global capability center IT services market is projected to rise from USD 192.5 billion in 2025 to USD 355 billion by 2030.
Seventy-two percent of GCC leaders cite a shortage of upskilled GenAI, cloud and cybersecurity talent as their top constraint. There is also a vacuum at 8–15 years of leadership experience, and Tier-1 infrastructure is buckling under rapid expansion.
The article closes with the competitive calculus flipped: for global enterprise leaders, the risk is not setting up a GCC in India—it is operating without one. Read the full article for the complete sector breakdown.
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