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Adani to invest Rs 4,600 crore in two data centre projects in Uttar Pradesh

UP has so far garnered investment of nearly Rs 18,000 crore in the high technology landscape of data centres, a minister said

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs announces 'Open Data Week'

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on Monday announced the initiation of the Open Data Week to encourage the adoption of open data and promote innovation across India's urban ecosystem.

Mumbai tops supply increase in data centre capacity in Asia-Pacific

Total IT capacity in Mumbai jumped from 812 MW in Q2 to 1,006 MW in Q3, according to International Property Consultants Knight Frank

Big push for data centres in India as states evolve dedicated policies

India, which aims to become the 'global data centre' hub, needs to ramp up its DC footprint as data consumption has spiked due to Covid-19 and the mandate to adhere to localisation rules

Microsoft unveils Azure Cloud availability zones in central India

Microsoft India on Wednesday announced new Azure availability zones in its central India data centre region, providing additional resilience and redundancy for customer workloads on its cloud

Infosys to transfer Daimler's HPC workloads to green data centre in Norway

Infosys said it will transfer Daimler's HPC workloads used to design vehicles and automated driving technologies to one of Europe's greenest data centres, Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway.

L&T signs pact with Tamil Nadu govt to build data centre at Kanchipuram

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it has entered into a pact with the Tamil Nadu government to establish a data centre in the state. L&T will establish 90 MW capacity data centres and associated units in a phased manner in Kanchipuram over the next five years. The company envisages to employ around 1,100 people -- 600 direct and 500 indirect -- in the project. Larsen & Toubro "has signed an MoU with the Government of Tamil Nadu to establish a data centre at Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu," the company said in a filing to the BSE. The Government of Tamil Nadu will provide uninterrupted power supply and other infrastructure support on a best-effort basis that will bring tangible economic and social benefits to the people of state. "Tamil Nadu is on a growth trajectory, and we are delighted to partner with the Government of Tamil Nadu to propel this growth by building a data centre that will further trigger development by attracting investments and generating jobs for the .

Big tech data centres spark worry over scarce Western water

Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centres on the edge of this Oregon town on the Columbia River represent an emerging 21st century concern. Now a critical part of modern computing, data centres help people stream movies on Netflix, conduct transactions on PayPal, post updates on Facebook, store trillions of photos and more. But a single facility can also churn through millions of gallons of water per day to keep hot-running equipment cool. Google wants to build at least two more data centres in The Dalles, worrying some residents who fear there eventually won't be enough water for everyone including for area farms and fruit orchards, which are by far the biggest users. Across the United States, there has been some mild pushback as tech companies build and expand data centres conflicts likely to grow as water becomes a more precious resource amid the threat of climate change and as the demand for cloud computing grows. Some tech giants

Data localisation: Understanding data centres and why they are important

What is a data localisation plan? What are data centres? Why is India pushing companies to store Indian users' data in data centres within the country? Here's an explainer

Airtel unit Nxtra to invest Rs 5,000 cr to expand data centre business

Plans to build seven hyper-scale data centres that will triple its capacities and help India become a regional hub for data centres

Heavy industries minister inaugurates data centre at BHEL facility

Union Heavy Industries Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey has inaugurated a modern, state-of-the-art data centre at BHEL's Electronics Division in Bengaluru. Established to commemorate India's celebration of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' and as a step in BHEL's digital transformation journey, the data centre at Electronics Division (EDN) encompasses the data centres of all the three Bengaluru-based units of BHEL, namely Solar Business Division (SBD), Industrial Systems Group (ISG), as well as EDN, a statement said. The facilities at these three units have been brought together and co-located in one place leading to optimisation of IT infrastructure, better data security and reduction in operating cost. The connectivity to SBD and ISG, located about 12 kms from EDN, is provided through high-speed multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) for increasing the speed and also to control the flow of network traffic. "Mahendra Nath Pandey, Union Minister of Heavy Industries, inaugurated a modern, ...

Cloud and new tech shift, localisation law drive data centre push in India

The Indian Data Centre (DC) industry is expected to more than double to 1,007 Mw by 2023 from its existing capacity of 447 Mw, says a JLL report

India data centre capacity to rise over 4 times by FY26: Honeywell

Tech major Honeywell on Tuesday said its solutions for data centres are helping drive profitability for customers through reduced maintenance cost, optimised uptime and enhanced security. The Nasdaq-listed company, which is a global leader in connected buildings, said India's data centre capacity is forecast to rise 4.5X by FY25-26. About 30 per cent of capex cost is power-linked costs. "In India, we have about 600 megawatt capacity, capacity of data centre is measured in megawatts and today, capital for roughly about 1,000 megawatt capacity is committed...another about 1350 megawatt of capacity is in final stages of finalisation, the two together what we see is about 4x growth of the data centre capacity in the next four or five years," Ashish Modi, President at Honeywell Building Technologies Asia, told reporters. Honeywell's data centre solutions have a presence in over 62 countries and its platform for data centre is used in about 5,000 data centres across the globe, he added.

India's data centre industry capacity to double by 2023 to 1,008 MW: Report

The capacity of data centre industry is expected to double by 2023 to over 1,000 MW to meet the rising demand amid sharp growth in digitalisation, according to property consultant JLL

Mumbai tops APAC data centre capacity addition in Q1, says Report

The financial capital saw the highest addition of data centre capacity in the entire Asia Pacific region in the quarter ending March 2021, says an industry report

Yondr group, Everstone form JV for data centres with $1 bn initial capital

The first facility to be located in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, for which land and power have been acquired, will deliver 30 Mw by 2023 and 60 Mw of IT capacity when fully developed

Microsoft in talks with Telangana to set up Rs 15,000-crore data centre

According to sources in the state government, the company has zeroed in on a land parcel near Hyderabad for the facility

Brookfield Infrastructure, Digital Realty form JV for data centres

The venture will expand Brookfield Infra's global data portfolio of $23 billion in assets across data transmission, distribution and storage, and 139,000 telecom wireless towers India

Ascendas Trust to invest Rs 1,200 cr in first phase of India data centre

Singapore-based Ascendas India Trust, on Monday said it will invest an estimated Rs 1,200 crore to develop the first phase of its first data centre project in the country

RIL AGM 2021: JioPhone Next to 5G, and more announced under Jio Platforms

Here are the details of everything Mukesh Ambani announced under Jio Platforms at the Reliance Industries annual general meeting this year