Bharti Airtel to set up hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad with ₹2,000 crore 

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HYDERABAD

The Bharti Airtel Group will be setting up a large hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad with an investment of ₹2,000 crore.

The facility, to be established by its data centre arm Nxtra Data Centers, will have a capacity of 60 megawatts (MW) of IT load in the first phase. Latest technologies in cooling and security are to be incorporated and the project is estimated to be commissioned in next 5-7 years.

The investment proposal was announced during a meeting the Group founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal and vice chairman Rajan Bharti Mittal had with Industries and IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao, on the sidelines World Economic Forum in Davos.

It will be the one of the biggest greenfield data centre projects of Bharti Airtel Group in India and “we are happy to be working with Telangana. Since initiation of our discussions on the project in May 2022 edition of WEF, the government has worked at a quick pace to ensure the project can get into construction in a few months,” Mr. Sunil Bharti Mittal said.

The Group intends to work closely with Telangana to increase the footprint in the State of other portfolios of the business as well.

The Minister said Airtel’s investment would add to the pace of Hyderabad’s emergence as a hub for hyperscale data centres in the country. He hoped the State and Airtel-Nxtra can work on creating digital infrastructure to keep up with the ever-growing industry in the State.