Singapore firm to invest Rs 1,100 crore in Noida data campus

Virendra Singh Rawat

Lucknow / Jan 20, 2021

Singapore based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) India has proposed to invest Rs 1,100 crore in a greenfield data centre project in Uttar Pradesh at Noida.

Formerly known as Tata Communications Data Centres Private Limited, STT Global Data Centres India is a majority owned subsidiary of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres of Singapore.

The proposed data centre campus is aimed at providing services to big cloud players, hyperscalers (an operator of a data center that offers scalable cloud computing services) and enterprises.

Currently, STT DCG operates 16 data centres across eight cities in India with an IT load capacity of 110 megawatt (MW), whereas the parent holding company operates a portfolio of 112 data centres globally.

In a meeting with UP additional chief secretary, industrial development, Alok Kumar, STT GDC representative informed that in the first phase the company would develop the campus with critical IT capacity of 18 mw with estimated investment of Rs 600 crore.

A land parcel of three acres has been identified by the investor in Noida to set up the campus, which would be scalable to 36 mw IT load in second phase with an additional investment of Rs 500 crore, excluding land cost.

The completion of the two phases would entail total investment of around Rs 1,100 crore with approximately 80 direct job and 1,000 indirect and induced employment avenues.

“The proposed campus is suitably located within easy access of the industrial hub and the national capital with seamless international connectivity,” Kumar noted adding there was already significant presence of industry and IT majors in and around NOIDA, which would aid in quickly evolving the region as a major data centre hub in North India.

The new policy would target Rs 20,000 crore worth of private investment and creation of 150,000 job opportunities in the next five years.

A data center is a facility that centralises the shared IT activities and equipment of an organisation for the purpose of storing, processing and disseminating information and applications.