India is heading towards a true digital economy, encouraged by government policies to support domestic and global data centres to invest on the way to spread their wings.

India is currently home to 80-third party data centres, both local and international players, which is expected to touch $4.6 billion per annum by 2025.

Tech service provider NTT has 10 data centres in four major cities with 1.5 million square feet of operational space and over 150 MW power capacities. The organization has planned an investment of $2 billion in India over a period of four years.

Vimal Kaw, Head of data centre services, NTT says, “we are expanding our data centre network to build infrastructure that is at the core of our full-stack product offerings. Company is set to build a data centre in Mumbai, called Mumbai 8, which will handle 24 megawatts (MW) of critical IT load, the amount of energy consumed by servers and network equipment in server halls. Moreover, four new hyper scale data centre parks will become operational in the next 18 months - two in Navi Mumbai and one each in Delhi and Chennai. Market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) defines hyper scale data centres as facilities with over 5000 servers. We will add close to another 175 MW of IT load to our capabilities.”

Sunil Gupta, co-founder and chief executive officer, Yotta says,” data centre solutions provider Yotta Infrastructure is ready with its second structure, Yotta NM2, with a capacity of 9000 racks that can go live in less than nine months. In addition, Yotta D1, the first data centre building in its Greater Noida data centre park, will include six interconnected buildings offering a capacity of 30,000 racks and 180MW of IT power. This will go live by July 2022.”

B.S. Rao, Vice president, CtrlS Datacenters says,”CtrlS Datacenters, for instance, is planning an additional capacity of over five million square feet across India, including cities like Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, and Noida. All of this capacity will be available to customers in the next 24 to 36 months in a phased manner. Company operates 1.25 million square feet of data centres in India, accounting for 18 percent of the country’s total data centre footprint. With the planned addition of yet another 5.3 million square feet, the combined footprint for CtrlS will stand at 6.55 million square feet.”