Telangana government announced on Thursday that Microsoft will invest Rs 16,000 crore in setting up three more data centers, bringing the total number of data centers proposed to six.
Earlier in 2022, the IT firm announced its first captive data center investment of three campuses with an investment of Rs 16,000 crore. The new announcement brings the total number of data centers that Microsoft plans to set up here would go up to six, an official release said.
An official release from Telangana’s IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao said the upcoming projects were discussed at the Microsoft Cafe at Davos, Switzerland in the presence of Principal Secretary for IT, Industries Jayesh Ranjan and Ahmed Mazhari, President of Microsoft Asia.
In a testament to Telangana and Microsoft’s commitment to help each other grow, Microsoft announced its first captive data center investment of three campuses early in 2022.
While the earlier investment commitment entailed three data centers in Hyderabad, they now target to reach six total data centers in the state with each center serving 100 MW of IT load on average, it said.
These centers are integral to Microsoft’s goal of strengthening its cloud infrastructure to serve Azure’s customers in India and worldwide. All six data centers are estimated to be deployed phase-wise in the next 10-15 years, it said.
On the occasion, Rama Rao said, Microsoft and Hyderabad have a very long-term mutually beneficial relationship and I am very happy to learn that Microsoft will expand in Telangana with such huge digital infrastructure projects. I look forward to seeing Microsoft continue to grow in the State.
According to Ahmed Mazhari President of Microsoft Asia,
“Hyderabad is one of our most important markets across the world and we will continue to invest in the city. The data center projects we will deploy in Telangana are some of the fully-owned data center projects in India by Microsoft. Apart from data centers, we will work with the government to identify special projects and support them in implementing them.”
Telangana had earlier signed an MoU with Microsoft to enable several beneficial activities such as skilling, internship programs and cloud adoption. As part of Telangana’s cloud adoption, the state is working with Microsoft Azure and others to ensure citizen services have the best infrastructure as part of its tech stack.
