A planned 100-acre data center park in Uttar Pradesh, India, will now also target other technology companies after the developers failed to find tenants.

The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has been marketing five data center plots on the land, which sits adjacent to the Yamuna Expressway between the Indian capital Dehli and the city of Agra.

DCD reported last year that YEIDA had extended the deadline for companies to apply to develop the plots, having only received two expressions of interest for some of the plots. The authority said at the time it required three competing bids to proceed to the next stage. Up-front costs relating to developing the land are said to have deterred some potential bidders.

Now the plan for the site is being rethought completely according to a report in the Times of India, which said the land will be split into two 50-acre parcels, one of which will be for data centers and the other targeting software companies.

YEIDA said it had taken this decision after conducting a market survey. This found that “very few companies are interested in buying land parcels for the data center projects,” YEIDA CEO Arun Vir Singh told the Times of India.

Singh added that there is “relatively higher demand” for space for software developers in the area.

The scheme previously offered three data center plots measuring 40,000 sqm (430,555 sq ft) and two plots of 20,000 sqm (215,280 sq ft), for a total of five. It was reported that between them they could support an IT capacity of up to 40MW.

When the scheme was first announced in August 2021, some 30 IT companies, domestic and foreign, were believed to have expressed interest in investing in the park.