India’s Biggest Hyperscale Data Centre
Source: Indian Express
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What is discussed under India’s Biggest Hyperscale Data Centre?
- Hyperscale Data Centre
- Yotta D1
- Way Ahead
Why in News?
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has inaugurated ‘Yotta D1’, the first hyper-scale data centre in North India, which cost Rs 5,000 crore and covered 3,00,000 square feet at the proposed Data Center Park in Noida.
Hyperscale Data Centre
- A data centre is a specific area or structure where a company keeps its servers and IT hardware.
- The firm can use the resources in its data centre to run its operations or provide those resources as a service to the general public.
- A hyperscale data centre is simply a building that houses network equipment and offers space, power, and cooling for a variety of highly scalable corporate applications and storage services.
Yotta D1
- North India’s first hyperscale data centre is called Yotta D1.
Photo by Manuel Geissinger - Yotta D1 will serve as the foundation for the 5G revolution in North India.
Location
- It is situated in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, on a 3 lakh square foot plot of land in the proposed Data Center Park.
Features
- 20 acres in size, with a capacity for 30,000 racks overall, 4 dedicated fibre pathways, and 160 MW of IT power.
Purpose
- With a comprehensive portfolio of solutions that include:
- Data centre colocation services
- Network and connectivity
- Internet peering
- IT security and smart cybersecurity
- Variety of application modernization and cloud-enabled services
- It will serve the full spectrum of needs for digital transformation.
Significance
- The data centre will improve the nation’s data storage capacity, which as of now only stood at 2% even though Indians consume 20% of the world’s data.
- Additionally, it is anticipated to greatly boost the Gross State Product (GSDP), open up new investment prospects, and provide a considerable amount of job opportunities.
- Yotta D1 is very helpful for worldwide connection since it offers Internet peering exchanges and direct fibre access to and from international cloud providers.
Way Ahead
- By 2025, it is expected that India’s data analytics industry would be worth more than $16 billion.
- It is a step in the right direction to focus particularly on boosting investment in data centre infrastructure.
- Big businesses like Google and Twitter would be able to establish a data centre for hosting, processing, and storing data if a data park was there.
- Customers will have quick access to movies and financial services with the rollout of 5G and edge data centres from this centre.
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