Hiranandani Group’s data center company Yotta Infrastructure has inked an agreement with the government of Tamil Nadu to set up a data center park spread over 13 acre campus in Chennai.
Hiranandani Group and its subsidiaries, along with Yotta Infrastructure, will invest up to Rs 4,000 crore in the proposed project over eight to 10 years.
The proposed data center park will be built at Hiranandani Parks on the Singaperumal-Oragadam highway and host a total of four data center buildings with a capacity of 20,000 racks.
Earlier in July 2020, Yotta Infrastructure inaugurated India's largest data center building, Yotta NM1, in Panvel near Mumbai, Maharashtra. This is the largest Tier-IV data center certified by the Uptime Institute in Asia and the second-largest in the world.
The Tamil Nadu government will provide facilitation in the form of necessary infrastructural support, regulatory approvals, permissions and registration facilitation subject to applicable laws.
This will also help to generate approximately 2,000-2,500 direct and indirect jobs in the state.
Once completed, the data center park will provide important cloud-based services to companies not only in the state but across India.
The first data center building with a built-up area of 2.30 lakh sq ft in the data center park is expected to be ready by Q4/2021. It will offer 25 MW IT power and have a capacity for 5,000 racks.
Like its Navi Mumbai facility, this data center park will also be carrier-neutral with the presence of major telcos and its own fibre network. The campus will also house 220/110 kV electrical substation and a CNG power plant.