{"id":10388,"date":"2021-02-22T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalcreed.in\/?p=10388"},"modified":"2021-08-21T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T16:03:20","slug":"datacenters-for-digital-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalcreed.in\/datacenters-for-digital-india\/","title":{"rendered":"India’s Data center Man Projects 10x Growth in Next 5 – 7 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIf granaries are important for grains and food grains, if a warehouse is important for manufacturing goods, a good data center is very important for a digital economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
— Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad,\u00a0Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, Government of India, at the Yotta NM1 data center launch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad is one of India’s few ministers who understand the importance of data centers as a driver of Digital India. Speaking at the launch of Yotta’s NM1 data center<\/strong> in Navi Mumbai last year, he said, “A good data center infrastructure is critical for a robust digital economy<\/strong>. For Digital India’s success, we must become a big global Data Refinery \u2013 data cleaning, data processing, data innovation, and research \u2013 and all of this will need to be done keeping in mind data privacy laws. We shall never compromise on the data sovereignty of India. The data economy has a lot of potential and in all its promise \u2013 a good data center<\/strong> is the pillar it builds on.”<\/p>\n
India has one of the lowest data rates globally, and most of its citizens are bypassing computers and accessing the Internet via their smartphones. A massive stream of digital data is downloaded every day by hundreds of millions of consumers in India. Indians are well versed with instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal \u2013 and social media apps. Streaming content from YouTube and many OTT apps is a daily habit for Indians. With forced lockdowns imposed in Indian cities last year, online shopping and e-commerce soared, with a chunk of shoppers coming from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.<\/p>\n
All this is generating massive amounts of data. India\u2019s data consumption is expected to grow at a CAGR of 72.6%. And all this data needs to be stored and processed in data centers \u2013 the warehouses of data. Not surprisingly, the data center market in India doubled in the last three years.<\/p>\n
Most data center operators in India are busy constructing new buildings and data center parks. It\u2019s no longer about planning a single building \u2013 it\u2019s really about scale, which means building data center parks with multiple buildings. We visited a couple of data centers in the past two years and spoke to their leadership and operational heads. They all say the same thing: Capacity in a new building gets utilized in 18 months or less. One data center operator said their second building was already booked by a single customer, even as it was being constructed. And <\/span>many global players<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Colt, Equinix, Princeton Digital Group, Ascendas Capital) have plans to enter the Indian market. The ST Telemedia Group and NTT Japan continue to invest in their Indian data centers (STT GDC India and NTT-Netmagic, respectively). And\u00a0<\/span>Adani Enterprises Limited<\/span><\/a> (Adani is a significant player in power) is also coming into this market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nUPDATE: <\/strong>23 Feb: Adani Enterprises <\/strong>and EdgeConneX<\/strong>, a global data centers operator with 50 facilities in 30 markets around the world, just announced the establishment of a 50:50 joint venture. They will develop data centers throughout India.<\/p>\n