Japan's NTT says planning Rs 2,000 cr investment in Bengal data centres

Company has committed investing $2 billion in India, plans more data centres

Japan’s NTT plans investing Rs 2,000 crore in three proposed data centres at the Bengal Silicon Valley Tech Hub in Kolkata.

“We plan to build three data centres here with a cumulative capacity of 25MW IT load; the first building will be on ground in 12-15 months,” said Shekhar Sharma, chief executive officer of NTT Global Data Centers & Cloud Infrastructure India and NTT Communications India.

At the ‘bhoomi puja’ of NTT Data Centre Campus at Silicon Valley, Sharma said the facility is the company’s humble start for an important milestone.

The campus on a 7.5-acre land would spread over