Mumbai: Yotta Data Services, the Hiranandani Group-backed data centre operator, is preparing to file its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for an initial public offering in the coming months, people familiar with the development told ET.The company is looking to raise around ₹6,000-8,000 crore through the IPO, said the people cited above. Kotak Mahindra Capital, ICICI Securities and SBI Capital Markets have been appointed as book-running lead managers for the issue. Emails sent to the company and the bankers did not elicit a response.Yotta joins its peer Sify Infinit Spaces to be among the first Indian data centre companies to tap the public markets as AI infrastructure demands massive capital investments. ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is also reportedly eyeing a listing this year.Read Also: Tata Sons’ IPO can take a page from a Hong Kong titanYotta is aiming to raise a total of ₹15,000 crore through a combination of pre-IPO and an IPO, an executive close to the company said. Last month, it closed one pre-IPO round to raise $150 million (₹1,500 crore) from non-institutional investors at a valuation of around $3.9 billion or ₹37,000 crore."The target is to raise $1.2-$1.5 billion. About $400 million will come from HNIs and family offices, and global private equity funds," one person said.The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its data centre footprint, sovereign cloud services, managed services and in deploying AI infrastructure including chips and cooling systems, the person said. The Mumbai-based firm has been scaling up its data centre and AI infrastructure business amid growing demand for computing capacity in India.Over the next two years, Yotta is investing $2 billion (₹16,600 crore) to deploy Nvidia's latest AI chips.