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Adani Group's firm plans to build 1,000-MW data centres in 10 years

Adani Group firm AdaniConneX is planning to build 1,000 megawatt data centres -- almost double the present size of the total industry -- over a period of 10 years, a senior company official said. AdaniConneX Senior Vice President and Head of Data Centre Business, Sanjay Bhutani said the the first seven data centres of the company will come up in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Bengaluru and Pune. "We are building 1,000 megawatt data centres. Today, the industry stands at 550 MW. Building 1,000 megawatt data centre in the next one decade is something which is our business plan," Bhutani said while speaking at 9.9 Group's CIO and Leader Conference on Saturday. Data centre capacity is measured in terms of power they consume. According to market research firm Arizton, India's data centre market size stood at 447 MW in 2021, valued at USD 10.9 billion. Bhutani said the six cities which will get first seven data centres will have total capacity of 450 MW over the next three years, whi

L&T Construction bags orders to build data centres in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said it has bagged significant contracts to build data centres of capacities totalling 10.8 MW at Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. The company will design, build and would be involved in supply work, among others for the data centres and allied buildings including fit-outs. The orders are bagged by the buildings and factories business of L&T Construction, a subsidiary of L&T. The company classifies contracts worth Rs 1,000-2,500 crore as significant orders. Further, the company has secured an order for the engineering, procurement and construction of the 'Statue of Oneness' The Statue of Adi Shankaracharya at Omkareshwar in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh from Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation Ltd. The 108-feet high bronze statue is scheduled to be completed in 15 months.

Infosys selected to manage technology separation from Toll Holdings

"Global Express appoints Infosys to manage technology separation from Toll Holdings," the Bengaluru-headquartered IT services major said in a statement

Network change in data centres caused outage, not cyber attack: Cloudflare

Several popular platforms like Discord, DoorDash, NordVPN, Zerodha, Upstox and others that use Cloudflare services went down for users globally, including in India

Equinix Inc to invest $86 million for its 3rd data centre in Mumbai

This initial investment by Equinix Inc. for data centre in Mumbai includes an acquisition of a parcel of land, which provides a total space of nearly four acres

Data centre capacity to double by FY25 with Rs 40,000 cr investment: Report

The data centre capacity is set to double by FY25 to 1,700-1,800 mw from 870 mw with an investment of Rs 40,000 cr on the back of rising data uptake, coupled with the launch of 5G services

Adani Enterprises to set up data centre at Bengal Silicon Valley: Minister

Addressing a press conference at the state assembly, West Bengal Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee said the cabinet gave its go-ahead to the company to set up the facility on 51.75 acres of land

Travel technology firm Egencia announces development centre in Gurgaon

The facility will focus on travel management, engineering, e-commerce, and used for technology support.

US cyber security company Trellix opens new data centre in Mumbai

California-based Cyber security company Trellix on Thursday announced the opening of a new data centre in Mumbai to help customers meet their data residency and compliance requirements.

NTT India launches hyperscale data centre campus NAV1A in Navi Mumbai

The investment that one hyperscale data centre requires is anywhere between $100-$150 million, said Sharad Sanghi, MD, NTT India

Bihar receives Rs 817 cr investment proposal for data centres

Data management firm VueNow, which is planning the investment, will develop a four-tier data centre of 100 racks with Patna as the master hub

Sundar Pichai announces $9.5 bn for new offices, data centres in US

Pichai said that Google helped provide $617 billion in economic activity for millions of American businesses, nonprofits, creators, developers and publishers last year

What are edge data centres and why are they essential for 5G?

NxtGen Datacenter and Cloud Technologies have announced Rs 1,300 cr investment to set up 236 edge centres in India. So is RailTel, in the country's rural and semi-urban areas. Let us find out why

TMS Ep143: Deepak Parekh, Covid-19 cases, HDFC merger, edge data centres

How life has come full circle for Deepak Parekh? Can we lower our guard as Covid-19 cases fall in India? What does the HDFC merger mean for shareholders? What are edge data centres? All answers here

Data centres in India faced 51 million cyber attacks in 9 months

The data centres in India captured more than 51 million cyber attacks over their networks from over 40,000 unique IP addresses from April-December 2021, a new report showed

Equinix to invest over USD 9 million for expansion in Chennai

The parcel of land located in State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT), Siruseri on the Old Mahabalipuram Road, popularly known as the IT corridor of the city

CtrlS commences work on its third data center in Hyderabad

The to-be-constructed CtrlS Gachibowli DC2 is located in the Financial District of Hyderabad sharing the neighbourhood with Capgemini, Microsoft, Virtusa, Infosys, and other IT and BFSI companies.

Data centres lean on green power as net connectivity in India spikes

Green is crucial as data centres are energy guzzlers, with the largest of them said to require more than 100 Mw of capacity, enough to power 80,000 US households

Ukraine prepares potential move of sensitive data to another country

Government officials have already been shipping equipment and backups to more secure areas of Ukraine beyond the reach of Russian forces, who invaded on Feb. 24 and are laying siege to several cities

Microsoft announces setting up of its fourth data centre in India

Situated in Hyderabad, this will be the Microsoft's largest data centre in the country