Yogi inaugurates North India’s first data centre at Greater Noida

Greater Noida: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated North India’s first hyperscale data center,  Yotta D1 built at the cost of Rs 5,000 crore and spread over an area of 300,000 square feet at the upcoming Data Centre Park in Greater Noida on Monday.
Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs)worth Rs 39,000 crore were also signed between the Yogi Government and Hiranandani Group to be spent on projects in the next five years on the occasion.
Speaking on the occasion, CM said, “I am delighted to see the opening of North India’s first data centre, which gives momentum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India movement, in Greater Noida today. The data centre will increase data storage capacity of the country, which until now stood at two percent only despite the fact that 1.5 billion mobile phone and 650 million internet users in the world are from India using 20 percent of data. Yet for storage of data, we had to look for centers abroad.”
Yogi said that technology and the talented youth of India, which has been instrumental in bringing about the digital revolution in the world, will play a vital role in realising PM Modi’s goal of self-reliance and making India a 5 trillion dollar economy if all the facilities and resources are available to them here.
CM Yogi said that UP is going to become a new hub of data center. “Earlier, when UP implemented its data centre policy, the total storage capacity in the country was only 400 MW. We set a target of 250 MW of storage capacity by 2026 with an investment of Rs 20,000 crore. And today I am happy to share that this target has been achieved in the very first year of the policy. Today, proposals of 600 MW have been received from many investors of the country and abroad,” he said.
Inviting investors to the data centre sector, the CM also told the new policy about the new policy. He said that in the new policy the government has not only simplified the land allotment process, but has also taken care of the needs of the investors in every aspect related to infrastructure including availability of electricity.
The CM told investors that the state will provide financial and non-financial incentives to them while ensuring safety of their investments.
It may be noted that the data centre park is expected to increase GSDP significantly while creating new avenues for investment in view of the proposed Uttar Pradesh Global Investors Summit 2023 and creating huge employment opportunities.
Yogi said that Gautam Buddha Nagar has emerged as a major investment destination in the country in recent times and has a very capable workforce in the IT sector.
Taking a dig at Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, CM Yogi said that superstition never allowed the former chief minister to visit Gautam Buddha Nagar ahead of elections. “They treated Gautam Buddha Nagar as a cursed city for fear of losing a chair. I never bothered about the chair. I said, if the chair has to go tomorrow, it’s better it goes today itself. My commitment is to the people and they brought us back to power in 2022,” he said.
Spread over 20 acres by Hiranandani Group, this data center park will have a total of 06 data centers. The seven-storied Yotta D-1 is the first part of this episode. Designed as per international quality standards, this exclusive data centre offers direct fiber connectivity to all major telecom operators from 4 different routes.
The Yotta D1 features Internet peering exchanges and direct fiber connectivity to and from global cloud operators, making it extremely useful for global connectivity. Not only this, Yotta D-1 will be the first pillar of North India’s 5G revolution. From here, Edge data center customers will be able to access the desired videos, games and other related data through a high-speed internet network to the networks of Jio, Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, BSNL.
To support Digital India, this data center will also get many other services including public cloud service, cyber security, disaster recovery. Powered by 50 MW of power, the data center is protected with state-of-the-art technology to ensure that thousands of millions of servers, storage and networks and the digital applications and content running on them are easily accessible to consumers with security. The data center also has 48 hours of power backup. (UNI)