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In a bid to boost technology infrastructure and spread the concept of eco-friendly data centres, the Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Adani Group to build data centre parks in and around Visakhapatnam over the next 20 years with a staggering investment of ₹70,000 crore.
With this, the Adani Group is set to make its foray into the digital infrastructure sector also. This project would be a first-of-its-kind 100% renewable energy powered project in the world.
In line with the AP government's visionary IT policy and focus on promoting data centres, cloud infrastructure, and allied technology industries as well as renewable energy, the Adani Group will be supporting the development of the digital and energy infrastructure in the state, by developing proposed data centre parks, in three different campuses in the city which is expected to create over a one lakh direct and indirect jobs during period, the proposed investment is set to be made.
The MoU was signed by Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and Andhra Pradesh Principal Secretary (IT) K Vijayanand in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and IT Minister Nara Lokesh.
The MoU was signed by Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and Andhra Pradesh Principal Secretary (IT) K Vijayanand in the presence of Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and IT Minister Nara Lokesh.
Significance Of The Project: Key Points
- The data centre parks will have capacities up to 5 GW and will be totally powered by renewable energy.
- The hyper-scale data centre market in the state will position AP as the east coast data centre hub for India and Southeast Asia.
- It will also be integrated with a cable landing station to take advantage of the states long coastline to help provide the required global connectivity and redundancy and to enable India to manage its exponential growth of data.
- This network of parks will be flexibly designed to adapt to emerging technology trends in the Data Center industry.
- It will be scaled modularly to meet the customer demands so that it can provide, a unique energy supply value proposition to its customers.
- The data centre park will also be transformational in enabling an entire ecosystem system of hardware suppliers, software application providers, start-up companies, and telecom ecosystem players.
- The data centre parks will further catalyse innovation and create the multiplier effect leading to thousands of new jobs and will generate increased tax collections for the state and centre in long run.
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