The Bharti Airtel Group will invest Rs 2,000 crore to install a large hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad. The Bharti Airtel Group will make the capital investment through its data centre arm Nxtra Data Centers for the infrastructure which will further attract investments from their customers, said the statement by Airtel.
The hyperscale data centre will be deployed in the next five to seven years. It will have a capacity of 60 megawatts (MW) of IT load for the first phase and incorporate the latest technologies in cooling and security.
Telangana Minister for IT and Industries KT Rama Rao said that Hyderabad is now the hub for Hyperscale Data Centers in India and Airtel’s investment adds to the pace it looks to keep up. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Airtel Group said, “This is one of our biggest greenfield Data Center projects in India and we are happy to be working with Telangana to increase our footprint in the state in other portfolios of our business as well.”
