The Government of Telangana along with the Bharti Airtel Group on Wednesday announced the investment of a large hyperscale data centre in Telangana's Hyderabad. The announcement happened at the Telangana Lounge in Davos in the presence of the Minister for IT and Industries, KT Rama Rao, the Telangana Principal Secretary of Industries & Commerce and Information Technology (IT), Jayesh Ranjan, and Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal and Mr. Rajan Bharti Mittal for the Bharti Airtel Group.
The Bharti Airtel Group, through its data centre arm, Nxtra Data Centers, will invest an amount of Rs 2,000 crore as a capital investment in the infrastructure, which will further attract investments from their customers. The project will be a hyperscale data centre with a first-phase IT load capacity of 60 megawatts (MW). The most recent cooling and security technology will be used. The project is estimated to be deployed in the next 5–7 years.
On this occasion, Minister K.T. Rama Rao said, "I am very happy to see Airtel-Nxtra Data Centers invest in Telangana. Hyderabad is not the hub for hyperscale data centres in India, and Airtel’s investment adds to the pace we look to keep up. I hope to continue this relationship and hope the state can work together with Airtel-Nxtra to work on creating digital infrastructure to keep up with the ever-growing industry in the state."
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Airtel Group, said, "This is one of our biggest greenfield data centre projects in India, and we are happy to be working with Telangana. Since the initiation of our discussions on the Data Center project in the May 2022 edition of the WEF Annual Meeting, the government has worked at a very quick pace to ensure the project can get into construction in a matter of a few months. We will work closely with Telangana to increase our footprint in the state in other portfolios of our business as well".
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