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Microsoft to set-up 4th data centre at Hyderabad, operational by 2025

IT company Microsoft on Monday said it will set up its fourth data centre in India at Hyderabad and expects to make it operational by 2025

Sify Technologies bets big on data centres in India, plans to add capacity

Sify Technologies already has 11 data centres spread across six cities in India -- including Mumbai, Noida, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Kolkata.

Adani Enterprises divests stake in DC Development Hyderabad, NDCL

Adani Enterprises Ltd on Wednesday announced divestment of its entire stake in DC Development Hyderabad Pvt Ltd and Naida Data Center (NDCL) to AdaniConnex Pvt Ltd. Consequently, DC Development Hyderabad and NDCL have ceased to be wholly-owned subsidiaries of the company, Adani Enterprises said in a filing to BSE. "The company has divested its 100 per cent stake in DC Development Hyderabad Private Ltd and Naida Data Center Ltd, wholly owned subsidiary (WoS) companies on 22nd February, 2022 to AdaniConnex Private Limited," the filing said. AdaniConnex is 50 per cent joint venture company of AEL with EdgeConneX Europe B.V.

Data centre specialist Princeton Digital raises $500 mln, led by Mubadala

The funding will enable the Princeton Digital to deepen its presence in Japan, India, Singapore.

NxtGen plans to invest Rs 1,300 crore in data centres across the country

The company, whose investors include Intel, IFC, and Iron Mountain, is in the process of raising $100 million by the first quarter of 2022-23.

Adani Group forms new subsidiary to set up data centre in Mumbai

Adani Group has incorporated a new subsidiary to set up a data centre in Mumbai, one of half a dozen cities that the billionaire Gautam Adani's group has identified to set up data centres initially.

States charge up for a data centre boom as global majors bet big on India

An inevitable rise in land prices in such areas is also a cause for concern

Adani to invest Rs 4,600 crore in two data centre projects in Uttar Pradesh

UP has so far garnered investment of nearly Rs 18,000 crore in the high technology landscape of data centres, a minister said

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs announces 'Open Data Week'

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) on Monday announced the initiation of the Open Data Week to encourage the adoption of open data and promote innovation across India's urban ecosystem.

Mumbai tops supply increase in data centre capacity in Asia-Pacific

Total IT capacity in Mumbai jumped from 812 MW in Q2 to 1,006 MW in Q3, according to International Property Consultants Knight Frank

Big push for data centres in India as states evolve dedicated policies

India, which aims to become the 'global data centre' hub, needs to ramp up its DC footprint as data consumption has spiked due to Covid-19 and the mandate to adhere to localisation rules

Microsoft unveils Azure Cloud availability zones in central India

Microsoft India on Wednesday announced new Azure availability zones in its central India data centre region, providing additional resilience and redundancy for customer workloads on its cloud

Infosys to transfer Daimler's HPC workloads to green data centre in Norway

Infosys said it will transfer Daimler's HPC workloads used to design vehicles and automated driving technologies to one of Europe's greenest data centres, Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway.

L&T signs pact with Tamil Nadu govt to build data centre at Kanchipuram

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it has entered into a pact with the Tamil Nadu government to establish a data centre in the state. L&T will establish 90 MW capacity data centres and associated units in a phased manner in Kanchipuram over the next five years. The company envisages to employ around 1,100 people -- 600 direct and 500 indirect -- in the project. Larsen & Toubro "has signed an MoU with the Government of Tamil Nadu to establish a data centre at Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu," the company said in a filing to the BSE. The Government of Tamil Nadu will provide uninterrupted power supply and other infrastructure support on a best-effort basis that will bring tangible economic and social benefits to the people of state. "Tamil Nadu is on a growth trajectory, and we are delighted to partner with the Government of Tamil Nadu to propel this growth by building a data centre that will further trigger development by attracting investments and generating jobs for the .

Big tech data centres spark worry over scarce Western water

Conflicts over water are as old as history itself, but the massive Google data centres on the edge of this Oregon town on the Columbia River represent an emerging 21st century concern. Now a critical part of modern computing, data centres help people stream movies on Netflix, conduct transactions on PayPal, post updates on Facebook, store trillions of photos and more. But a single facility can also churn through millions of gallons of water per day to keep hot-running equipment cool. Google wants to build at least two more data centres in The Dalles, worrying some residents who fear there eventually won't be enough water for everyone including for area farms and fruit orchards, which are by far the biggest users. Across the United States, there has been some mild pushback as tech companies build and expand data centres conflicts likely to grow as water becomes a more precious resource amid the threat of climate change and as the demand for cloud computing grows. Some tech giants

Data localisation: Understanding data centres and why they are important

What is a data localisation plan? What are data centres? Why is India pushing companies to store Indian users' data in data centres within the country? Here's an explainer

Airtel unit Nxtra to invest Rs 5,000 cr to expand data centre business

Plans to build seven hyper-scale data centres that will triple its capacities and help India become a regional hub for data centres

Heavy industries minister inaugurates data centre at BHEL facility

Union Heavy Industries Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey has inaugurated a modern, state-of-the-art data centre at BHEL's Electronics Division in Bengaluru. Established to commemorate India's celebration of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' and as a step in BHEL's digital transformation journey, the data centre at Electronics Division (EDN) encompasses the data centres of all the three Bengaluru-based units of BHEL, namely Solar Business Division (SBD), Industrial Systems Group (ISG), as well as EDN, a statement said. The facilities at these three units have been brought together and co-located in one place leading to optimisation of IT infrastructure, better data security and reduction in operating cost. The connectivity to SBD and ISG, located about 12 kms from EDN, is provided through high-speed multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) for increasing the speed and also to control the flow of network traffic. "Mahendra Nath Pandey, Union Minister of Heavy Industries, inaugurated a modern, ...

Cloud and new tech shift, localisation law drive data centre push in India

The Indian Data Centre (DC) industry is expected to more than double to 1,007 Mw by 2023 from its existing capacity of 447 Mw, says a JLL report

India data centre capacity to rise over 4 times by FY26: Honeywell

Tech major Honeywell on Tuesday said its solutions for data centres are helping drive profitability for customers through reduced maintenance cost, optimised uptime and enhanced security. The Nasdaq-listed company, which is a global leader in connected buildings, said India's data centre capacity is forecast to rise 4.5X by FY25-26. About 30 per cent of capex cost is power-linked costs. "In India, we have about 600 megawatt capacity, capacity of data centre is measured in megawatts and today, capital for roughly about 1,000 megawatt capacity is committed...another about 1350 megawatt of capacity is in final stages of finalisation, the two together what we see is about 4x growth of the data centre capacity in the next four or five years," Ashish Modi, President at Honeywell Building Technologies Asia, told reporters. Honeywell's data centre solutions have a presence in over 62 countries and its platform for data centre is used in about 5,000 data centres across the globe, he added.