Hiranandani Group subsidiary Yotta Infrastructure which is a Managed Data Center service provider creating hyper-scale data center parks in India signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu Govt for making a Data Center Park in Chennai. Alongside Yotta, the Hiranandani Group and companies is set to invest INR 3000-4000 crores in the aforesaid project in the next 8-10 years. This project will help in generating an average of 2000-2500 direct and indirect jobs in Tamil Nadu. Granting the project, the Tamil Nadu Govt said it will provide facilitation and support including infrastructural support, regulatory approvals, permissions, and registration facilitation subject to applicable news.

The Data Center Park is believed to be set on a 13-acre campus at Hiranandani Parks on the Singaperumal-Oragadam highway. The park will be able to host a total of 4 Data Center buildings with a capacity of 20000 racks, backup generator sets, and featuring a total power load of 150-240 MW (approx). Similar to the Navi Mumbai facility, the Data Center Park will have carrier-neutral with the presence of major telcos and own fiber network. The park will have a house of 220/110 KV electrical substation and a CNG power plant.

Darshan Hiranandani, the Group CEO, Hiranandani Group said, “For this development, we have selected Chennai to set up our Data Center Park as the global hub for major technology companies and the strategic advantage of being a major international fiber landing station. Chennai has an enormous geographic significance which will help marking the physical presence in the South India. This development is aligned to the vision of partnering in nation-building efforts by creating the

technological infrastructure for powering Digital India movement. We are delighted to welcome the initiatives from the Tamil Nadu Govt.”

Dr. Neeraj Mittal IAS, MD & CEO, Guidance, Industries Department, Government of Tamil Nadu said, “Data Centers are important to meet the demands for cloud services and digital content consumptions across the country, so, we welcome the Hiranandani Group and Yotta Infrastructure to make the project successful in Chennai. We will give full support to this project and once it is completed, the Data Center Park will have all important cloud-based services for companies in the state and all over India. It will be the pillar of growth for digital infrastructure.”

With a built-up area of 230,000 square feet, the first data center building is expected to be ready by the last quarter of 2021. It will have 25 MW IT power and a capacity for 5000 racks. Yotta will construct the data center with the highest Uptime Institute certified Tier IV design and construction standards for ensuring the utmost reliability.

“With the first Uptime Institute certified Tier IV data center building – Yotta NM1, we proved that world-class infrastructure facility at cost-effective price can become a reality. The Yotta NM1 serves the western region and the Chennai data center park will have the similar Tier IV infrastructure facilities for the southern region. It will fill the empty space for quality colocation services in the region. Yotta is a complete managed hybrid IT infrastructure provider which will provide customers various customized options for suiting their requirements with the enterprise managed services,” explained Sunil Gupta, Managing Partner & CEO – Yotta Infrastructure.

In the first part of the month, Yotta inaugurated India’s largest data center building – Yotta NM1 in Panvel of Maharashtra which is the largest Tier IV Data Center certified by Uptime Institute in Asia and the second-largest in the world.

About Yotta

A Managed Data Center service provider which designs, builds, and operates large-scale hyperdensity Data Center Parks in Navi Mumbai, Chennai, and Delhi. It’s a 100 percent subsidiary of the real-estate giant Hiranandani Group and offers a wide array of services like Wholesale Colo, Retail Colo, Hybrid Multi-Cloud, IT Management, Security Services, Network Connectivity, etc.

Yotta became a trendsetter with services for self-owned land banks, in-house DC Design and Construction Capabilities, Generation and Distribution of Power including Green Energy, a Unique Inter-DC Metro Fiber Network, and Innovative Data Center Services Stack. With the ‘Industry-Firsts’ services, Yotta has a highly experienced management team that works on huge economies of scale and delivers best-valued services to the customers which are cost-effective.
Please visit Yotta’s website – www.yotta.com for further information.