Adani Conex will invest Rs 13,200 crore in hyper-scale data centre in the next 7 years.
Adani Conex will invest Rs 13,200 crore in hyper-scale data centre in the next 7 years. It currently operates an advanced 33 MW capacity data center in SIPCOT IT Park, Chennai. The company plans to increase it to 200 MW. Adani Group’s presence is rapidly expanding in Tamil Nadu across a number of sectors, including ports and logistics, edible oil, power transmission, city gas distribution, data centres, green energy and cement manufacturing. Adani Group will make a major investment of Rs 42,700 crore in Tamil Nadu, for this an MoU has been signed at the Chennai Global Investors Meet 2024. Speaking on the occasion, Karan Adani of Adani Group said, “Today’s Tamil Nadu is an exceptional state with stability, a well-established industrial ecosystem, advanced infrastructure, total connectivity, safe neighbourhoods, a capable and efficient team of executives, business friendly policies and a skilled workforce. Is an example.”
Adani data centre is opening doors for global network
The Chennai 1 facility in Tamil Nadu is recognized for world class excellence as well as the most advanced data setter in the region. The facility was built with sustainability in mind and is powered by 100% renewable energy. Chennai 1 is the first data center in Tamil Nadu to be awarded the IGBC Platinum Rated Pre-Certification. The Chennai 1 facility is designed with a 7 layer security system that strengthens its IT infrastructure. It is committed to providing 99.999% availability to customers. Strategically located in SIPCOT-IT Park, Adani Connex, Chennai 1 Data Center is a first-of-its-kind multi-purpose facility that opens the doors to a global network of data centers in India with domestic access to other markets.
What is data centre?
A data centre is a place where various types of facilities are provided to the IT activities and devices of a company. These facilities include data storage, processing and transmission of information and functions related to the company’s applications. It can be considered like a server from where the entire IT of a company operates. You use social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or YouTube, the question is where these applications operate from and where the data you enter in them is stored. All these applications are American, and they basically operate from America only. As far as data is concerned, that data is stored in American data centers.
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Important contribution
According to a survey, digital transformation will take place in India through data centers and this will help in creating a 1 trillion dollar digital economy by the year 2025. The Indian data center will act as the backbone for the industry, allowing India to emerge as a global hub. Due to their geographical location and infrastructure, Mumbai and Chennai have been identified as India’s data center market.
India becoming a global hub
In the last few years, due to the rapid digitization of the Government of India, improvement in information technology infrastructure, work on modern technologies like 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and Cloud Computing, the work of building new data centers in the country is going on at a very fast pace. Its going on. Apart from this, due to laws like data privacy, there is a demand to keep the data of the citizens of the country within the country, due to which domestic and foreign companies are now opening their data centers in India. Due to this, lakhs of jobs will be created, while high technology jobs will also be created in India.
