CtrlS to invest Rs 2,200 cr at upcoming data centre campus in Kolkata

This will be the first Rated-4 data centre of East India, says the company

Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters, one of the leading players in the Indian data centre market, has earmarked ~2,200 crore for its data centre campus at Bengal Silicon Valley Tech Hub on Kolkata outskirts.

The investment will be made in phases.

The firm has a five-acre plot, which will house four buildings in the tech hub in New Town Rajarhat area of Kolkata.

The first data centre building with a 16MW IT load capacity and built-up area of over 90,000 square feet (sft) is expected to go live in two months’ time.

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Suresh Kumar Rathod, President, Colocation Business, CtrlS Datacenters, said that the IT load capacity of the entire campus could go up to 60-80MW and even 100MW. The investment would vary according to the capacity.

Rathod said that four to five service providers are building data centres in the entire New Town area.

“We are going to be the first one to go live in another two months’ time,” he said.

The customer, he said, was an “American giant”.

According to the company, this would be the first Rated-4 data centre of East India.

The data centre at the New Town campus would be AI-ready with provision for high-density racks. It would have a wide range of modern cooling technologies and would aim for LEED Platinum certification.

CtrlS has 250MW of live data centre footprint across eight markets in India. By 2029, it is set to build over 600MW of data centre capacity.