A joint venture between Indian data center services provider, Web Werks, and Iron Mountain, an American information management services company, has acquired a four-acre parcel of land in Chennai. Two data centers (CHE-1 and CHE-2) will be built at the plot located at Ambattur, and for this the JV is making an investment of Rs 1,800 cr (US$ 216 million).
According to a press release, the two data centers will be built to Tier III standards and will support 36 megawatts of IT load, further enhancing the company’s rapidly growing pan-India footprint, which will support more than 90 megawatts of new development across the key markets of Pune, Bangalore, Noida, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Web Werks offers a variety of services ranging from colocation facilities, cloud solutions, managed services, and dedicated servers among others. Its clients hail from different industries such as telecom, energy, entertainment, retail and healthcare among others. With the new data centers, the company will support 90 MW of new development across key markets.
Chennai is already a buzzing data center hot spot in India, and it was chosen for its strategic location and access to sub-sea cables. “Data centre ecosystems require submarine cables, local consumption and internet traffic to proliferate. Chennai is a desired location for data centres for those reasons plus ample land, power and connectivity options,” explained Nikhil Rathi, Founder & CEO of Web Werks Data Centres. “Located at a geographic high point, Ambattur is not prone to floods and is away from the typically crowded IT corridor.”
Mark Kidd, EVP & Global General Manager, Iron Mountain Data Centers & Asset Lifecycle Management concurred, “As Chennai is one of India’s most important connectivity hubs, we are thrilled to be building capacity to meet hyperscale, network, content, public sector undertakings and enterprise customer demand.” He further said, “Our Pan-India expansion is focused on supporting our customers through their digital transformations and leveraging the rapid digital growth in the country. We look forward to bringing our core competencies of energy efficient, network dense and highly secure colocation data centers to this thriving market.”
