Amazon Web Services Image for representation only/ Source: Getty Images Reliance has emerged as one of the leading investors in the Indian sector by partnering Jio with Microsoft to run the latter’s Azure services in the data centres. The company in 2019 also entered a 10-year partnership with Microsoft to build more of these across the country, while it is working towards the establishment of two of its hyper-scale data centres in India, which will be 7.5 MW each in capacity, and installed in Maharashtra and Gujarat. The Indian telecom giant has established itself as one of the leading outsourced data centre infra providers to businesses and companies. Incorporating world-class services and cutting-edge infrastructure, Reliance has nine data centres in India. They specialise in providing all major digital services, including disaster recovery services, cloud security services, consultation in data centre builds, among others.

Their locations include Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Noida. Over 70% of all financial transactions in the country are carried out through the data centres of CtrlS, and the company claims to have over 250 million registered mobile banking users in India. Awarded with the CIO Choice Award – Public Cloud Services for Large Enterprises in 2014, it claims to be India’s only rated-4 data centre. Currently, it has its operational centres spread across 1 million square feet of land area in the country. Headquartered in Hyderabad, CtrlS aims to deploy its rated-4 data centres across 6 million square feet in India by 2023. Considering all these factors, let’s take a look at some of the prominent data centre projects of India in 2021. Sign up Image for representation only/ Source: Getty ImagesĪs the Indian government is also promoting the use of renewable sources to generate energy, the data centre sector doesn’t remain deprived of the same. Most importantly, the adoption of cloud-based services has emerged to be one of the few evident factors for the rise in investments into the Indian data centre market. Investments in edge data centres are also the focus, with speculations over the introduction of 5G services in the country. Groups like Adani and Reliance, government bodies like National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), and leading IT companies of the country, all are pacing towards land acquisitions to accommodate their data projects, while a few have already started.

According to MeiTy, the approximate land area for the installation of a data centre would be 4000 square feet.

With data being critical to any organisation, statutory body, or individual, the Indian government has also tabled the Personal Data Protection Bill in the parliament with an aim to conserve it for Indian users in the country. With tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft extending their digital services in India with their respective data centres, the Indian share of this market is currently growing at a 12 per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), which is estimated until 2024. Businesses in the country are actively aiming to extract investments in the data centre sector which is likely to reach a magical figure of INR 450 Crore in the next five years. As millions of web users keep piling every year, the average data consumption by a user, which stood at 10 GB/month in 2018, reached 13.4 GB/month until 2020 and is expected to see a drastic rise of 21 exabytes/month until 2025. Digitisation has imparted certain crucial changes in the ways of data consumption for the past decade in India.

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