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According to industry estimates, India will require a six-fold increase in data centre capacity by 2029 to over 5,000 MW from about 1,000 MW in 2023 involving an investment of Rs 1.5 lakh crore...
While Maharashtra, Telangana and Tamil Nadu were the first movers to release state-specific incentives for the industry, Uttar Pradesh is catching up fast as Noida and Greater Noida are becoming a hotspot for data centres especially as service providers look to cater to the demand of customers in north India...
This is a favourable position for investors, for data centre providers and the customer as well, he said.. Encouraged by the response so far with interests from players such as Yotta, Adani Group and Microsoft, the UP government has reportedly announced that it will offer 10 more land parcels, together measuring 50 acres, for more data centre projects in the Noida-Yamuna Expressway region...
For data centres, you need multiple locations, land availability, road access to locations for fuel trucks in the case of emergency, power availability there are a lot of site selection criteria in which Delhi and Gurgaon could not fit in, Gupta said.. Yotta Infrastructure unveiled north Indias first hyperscale data centre, Yotta D1, in October last year in Greater Noida..
I know for my campus, I took 20 acres of land and typically it would have been a 30-36 months project, but with huge support from the government in terms of approvals and everything that we wanted we were able to launch this huge campus with lots of capacity in less than 18 months, he said.. Gupta added that, besides giving incentives such as subsidies in stamp duties or zero electricity duty, the government officials were actually on the ground working with them to give the power infra or fibre ducts or whatever one needs to ensure the data centre ecosystem grows in the region...
