UPDATED: Taking its expansion plans forward, Yotta Infrastructure laid the foundation stone for another data center park in Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh, India) on Sunday, November 29. The event was graced by the virtual presence of Hon. Chief Minister, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, Shri. Yogi Adityanath. Also present was Hon. Cabinet Minister of Industrial Development and Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Satish Mahana. CEO Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, Founder & Chairman – Hiranandani Group and Darshan Hiranandani, Group CEO – Hiranandani Group also attended the Bhoomi Pujan from Mumbai over a video call.
Addressing the audience, Sunil Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of Yotta Infrastructure, showcased the entire project to the attendees and talked about the scale and technicalities of the Noida data center.
Gupta said Yotta will invest Rs 1 crore for the first building, which will have a capacity of 42 MW. The construction will commence from December 2020 and the first building is expected to be operational before July 2022. It will be set up at an estimated cost of INR 6000-7000 Crore (appoximately USD 950 million).
The park will consist of 6 interconnected data center buildings offering 30,000 racks capacity and 200 MW of power. The project will begin in January 2021 and is expected to be completed in five years.
“This data center will host the infrastructure of clients like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, government institutions, as well as banks and other industries,” said Gupta.
Darshan Hiranandani, Group CEO – Hiranandani Group said this will be the largest and most energy efficient data center in North India built over 20 acres of land.
According to officials, the project will create 500 jobs in the first five years.
Shri Yogi Adityanathji, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh attending the event virtually along with other cabinet ministers
Hon. Chief Minister, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh, Shri. Yogi Adityanath said, “I’m pleased that the first data center park of Uttar Pradesh is coming up in Greater Noida and I congratulate the Hiranandani Group and Yotta on this auspicious occasion. The Hiranandani Group has demonstrated their vision of building a data center park in UP even before we’ve formally launched our Data Center Policy and UP’s first datacenter park will unlock a lot of possibilities which will play a key role in realizing the PM’s Digital India vision.
Our biggest success is in creating an environment through our Business Reform Action Plan, where new investors coming to UP feel assured. UP government has moved up in the ease of doing business ranking over the past few years and is at number two in the country today. Our government and administration will extend all support, during and after the construction of this data center park, and on behalf of the people of UP, I welcome the Hiranandani Group on taking this step towards the betterment of everyone’s future.”
Dr. Niranjan Hiranandani, Founder & Chairman – Hiranandani Group said, “The data center project is a milestone for the UP state and it will bring huge investment in this region in the time to come.
Yotta first announced plans for the Noida data center park in October 2020.
This announcement comes in the same year that Yotta Infrastructure inaugurated Asia’s Largest and World’s Second-Largest Certified Data Center in Mumbai. The Uptime Institute Certified Tier IV data center was built in less than 12 months and opened in July 2020.
With proximity to Mumbai and Pune, the 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. It offers a PUE rating of 1.4.
Yotta is also building a data center in Chennai and envisages spending about INR 3500 crores in the next 3 years and about INR 15,000 crore over the next 7 to 10 years across these data center parks.
