Bharti Airtel announces Rs 2K cr investment for hyperscale data centre

Telangana Government, along with the Bharti Airtel Group, on Wednesday announced the investment of a large Hyperscale Data Center in Hyderabad with an investment of Rs 2000 Crore.

This was announced at the Telangana Lounge at Davos in the presence of the Industries Minister KT Rama Rao and Principal Secretary Jayesh Ranjan and Sunil Bharti Mittal and Rajan Bharti Mittal from the Bharti Airtel Group.

The Bharti Airtel Group, through its data centre arm, Nxtra Data Centers, would invest an amount of Rs 2000 Crores as capital investment for the infrastructure which would further attract investments from their customers. The facility would be a Hyperscale Data Center with a capacity of 60 megawatts (MW) of IT load for the first phase. It would incorporate the latest technologies in cooling and security. The project is estimated to be deployed in the next 5-7 years.