Hiranandani Group unveils North India’s first hyperscale data center in boost to region’s digital economy

• The data center has been set up with an investment of around ₹1,500 crore and will see an additional investment of ₹5,000 crore in IT equipment.
  
• Yotta also entered into an MoU with the UP government to invest ₹39,000 crore in a phased manner over 5-7 years.
  
• “Data will be a $1 trillion dollar economy by 2025..Today, over 85% of India's data is stored abroad. With this emerging data center, that is about to change," said Niranjan Hiranandani of the Hiranandani real estate development group.

Hiranandani group’s wholly-owned subsidiary Yotta Infrastructure on Monday unveiled North India’s first hyperscale data center at its Greater Noida Data Center Park, in a boost to the region’s digital economy.

Called Yotta D1, it was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics & IT.

The data center has been set up with an investment of around ₹1,500 crore. Once fully functional, Yotta D1 building will see an additional investment of ₹5,000 crore in IT equipment, the company said in a press release.

"When the data revolution began in India, Mumbai and Chennai were prime data storage centers. This is about to change with data centers now coming up in the Delhi NCR region as well. When you have a data center next to you, a lot of companies will be able to give lightning fast processing for data to local people, in turn boosting productivity," said Darshan Hiranandani, co-founder and chairman of Yotta Infrastructure.

Yotta D1 is strategically located near the key business hubs of NCR, the company said.

The company also entered into an MoU with the UP government to invest ₹39,000 crore in a phased manner over 5-7 years. The investment will go towards constructing the data center campus and procuring IT equipment and other hardware for Yotta customers.

"Data will be a $1 trillion dollar economy by 2025 and this data center built in Greater Noida is the fastest-built data center globally. Today, over 85% of India's data is stored abroad. With this emerging data center, that is about to change," said Niranjan Hiranandani of the Hiranandani real estate development group.

The data center inaugurated on Monday is spread across 20 acres. The Yotta Greater Noida Data Center Park will offer a total capacity of 30,000 racks, four dedicated fiber paths and an IT power capacity of 160 MW. In addition, the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the next two data center buildings – Yotta D2 & D3, was also performed on Monday.

Data centers go ‘local’

Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO Yotta Infrastructure, said that India will need to build its data storage capacity at a pace which is 15 times more than the mature global data centers of the world. India has over 700 million active internet users, and has clocked in 9.3 billion UPI transactions in one quarter alone.

"If someone in Delhi wants to watch a high-definition movie, they should not wait for data to come from the Mumbai data center," said Gupta, who is also known as India's Data Man.

The 5,000 data racks in Yotta D1 building has the capacity for storing at least 60 lakh high-definition movies, the company said.

"These data centers will have multiple-use cases. Customers from edtech, healthtech companies, SMEs, public sector units, state government initiatives like AYUSH, Aadhar, storage of passport data can tap into this resource," added Gupta.

Launched three years ago, Yotta Infrastructure has built data centers in Powai and will be tapping into Thane and Panvel in Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Gujarat and West Bengal in the coming years. It also aims to go international and is in talks with the government of Bangladesh, the company said.

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