Bharti Airtel Group, an Indian telecommunications services company, has announced that it will be investing Rs 2,000 crore for setting up a large hyperscale data center in Hyderabad and is estimated to be deployed in the next five to seven years.
The announcement was made at the Telangana Lounge at Davos, Switzerland in the presence of Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao, Principal Secretary for Industries Jayesh Ranjan, and the Group’s founder-chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, an official release said.
The Bharti Airtel Group, through its data center arm, Nxtra Data Centers, will invest the amount as capital investment for the infrastructure which will further attract investments from their customers, it said.
The facility will be a hyperscale data center with a capacity of 60 megawatts (MW) of IT load for the first phase. It will incorporate the latest technologies in cooling and security.
IT and Industries Minister Rama Rao said: “I am very happy to see Airtel-Nxtra Data Centers invest in Telangana. Hyderabad is now the hub for Hyperscale Data Centers in India and Airtel’s investment adds to the pace we look to keep up. I hope to continue this relationship and hope the state can work together with Airtel-Nxtra to work on creating digital infrastructure to keep up with the ever-growing industry in the state,“
Meanwhile, for Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Airtel Group, this is one of their biggest greenfield Data Center projects in India and they are happy to be working with Telangana.
Since beginning to discuss the data center project during the WEF annual meeting in May 2022, the government has moved very quickly to ensure that the project may begin construction in a couple of months. To expand their presence in the state across all of their business portfolios, they will collaborate closely with Telangana.
