Yotta
Infrastructure, a Hiranandani Group subsidiary and a Managed Data Centre
Service Provider developing hyper-scale data centre parks in India, today
inaugurated India's largest data center building, Yotta NM1, in a
virtual event in the presence of Shri Uddhav Thackeray– Hon. Chief Minister,
Govt of Maharashtra, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad - Hon. Minister for
Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice,
Govt of India and Sh. Subhash Desai – Hon. Minister of Industries and Mining ,
Govt of Maharashtra. It is the largest Tier IV Data Center certified by Uptime
Institute in Asia and second largest in the
world.
With proximity to Mumbai
and Pune, Yotta NM1 Data Center is located in the 600-acre Hiranandani Fortune
City in Panvel. Yotta NM1
is first of the five data center buildings coming up at this Integrated Yotta
Data Center
Park , which, once fully
built, will have an overall capacity of 30,000 racks and 250 MW power. At
820,000 sq. ft, 7,200 racks, 50 MW of power and 4 redundant self-owned fiber
paths connecting the DC to national highways, the first DC Yotta NM1 itself
offers a highly scalable data centre infrastructure, capable of hosting global
cloud, content and OTT operators besides the mission-critical applications of
enterprises and governments. The ultramodern building, supported by a highly
redundant on-site power infrastructure shall soon be powered by its own captive
solar power plant and an on-site captive gas-based co-gen power plant thus
delivering to its hosted customers long term reliable, green and cost-effective
source of power.
Speaking at the virtual
event, Shri. Uddhav Thackeray, Hon. Chief Minister, Govt. of
Maharashtra, reiterating the importance of Data Centers said, “Govt
of India
said, Covid-19 has made the digital future into a reality and given us a new
perspective on life. The Maharashtra
government is inviting investors to come to our state to do business here and
we will extend all support and cooperation to them. We’ve launched the Maha
Jobs portal just yesterday for job seekers from the state and also to
facilitate workers for industries to act a bridge between employers and
employment seekers. By the evening we received thousands of applications and it
is a great example of the power of Digital. Working from home has also been
made possible by a robust digital infrastructure even in the face of a pandemic
and the Hiranandani’s are enabling work of the future today with Yotta
Infrastructure. The government of Maharashtra
will extend all support towards this endeavor.”
Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Hon. Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information
Technology and Law & Justice,
Govt of India said, “A good data center infrastructure is critical for
a robust digital economy and with this data center the Hiranandani Group has
yet again delivered on their standards of creating a new benchmark in every
industry that they operate in. Under the vision of the Honorable Prime Minister
we have launched the Digital India
initiative – to empower the country with technology, bridge the divide and
bring digital inclusion, and all of this must be achieved through technology
that is homegrown. This particular data center is a powerful statement of
intent that India
is rising high in the quest of data security, data use and data innovation. For
the success of Digital India, we must become a big global Data Refinery - data
cleaning, data processing, data innovation and research - and all of this will
need to be done keeping in mind data privacy laws. We shall never compromise on
the data sovereignty of India .
The data economy has a lot of potential and in all its promise – a good data
center is the pillar it builds on.”
With the pandemic
fast-tracking the digital transformation efforts across enterprises and mass
transition to remote working, Canalys Global reported that cloud spends were at
a record high in Q12020, up 34% during the time. As enterprises increase their dependency
on cloud services, and as India becomes increasingly digital, shifting speedily
to web collaboration, e-commerce, e-payments, emerging technologies like AI,
ML, IoT, Robotics, connected cars, and as 5G adoption permeates, the resultant
growth in generated data is humongous and requires a massive buildout of
evolved data processing and storage facilities i.e. data centers. Initiatives
under the Digital India campaign are further accelerating the growth in India 's data
center industry.
Besides Navi Mumbai, Yotta is also developing similar sized giant Data Center Parks at Chennai and
India, Mumbai, 07 July 2020