Asia¡¯s Largest Data Centre Opens In Navi Mumbai, Spread Across 600-Acres

Navi Mumbai has got a brand new data centre at Yotta Infrastructure which is also the largest data centre building in the whole nation and the largest Tier IV Data Centre certified by Uptime Institute in Asia and second-largest in the world.

The data centre is called Yotta NM1 and this state of the art centre is located in the 600-acre property of Hiranandani Fortune City in Panvel.

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Yotta NM1 is the first of a five-data-centre complex that is being set up in the Integrated Yotta Data Centre Park. The whole complex, when fully built, has a capacity of a whopping 30,000 racks with a power capacity of 250MW.

India and Asia's largest data centre complex

The NM1 specifically is spread out in an 820,000 square feet area with a capacity of 7,200 racks. Powering these racks is a 50MW power source with 4 redundant self-owned fibre paths that connect the data centre to the national highways.

The data centre, according to Yotta, is completely user-scalable and can be used for cloud storage, OTT content, or even enterprise-government level applications.

The site also has its own on-site power infrastructure and will soon be powered with its own solar plant installed on-site, along with captive gas-based co-gen power plant to offer green and cost-effective power sources.

At the unveiling, CM of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackrey was present virtually. He said in a statement, ¡°Working from home has also been made possible by a robust digital infrastructure even in the face of a pandemic and the Hiranandani¡¯s are enabling work of the future today with Yotta Infrastructure. The government of Maharashtra will extend all support towards this endeavour.¡±

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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice, said, ¡°A good data centre infrastructure is critical for a robust digital economy and with this data centre the Hiranandani Group has yet again delivered on their standards of creating a new benchmark in every industry that they operate in.¡±

He added, ¡°This particular data centre is a powerful statement of intent that India is rising high in the quest of data security, data use and data innovation. For the success of Digital India, we must become a big global Data Refinery - data cleaning, data processing, data innovation and research - 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 ¨C a good data centre is the pillar it builds on.¡±