DailyPost 2849
SOUTH INDIA’S DATA CENTRE WAVE
The transition to the cloud was transformational for businesses as the world got severely impacted by the Covid19 pandemic and there has not been any going back since then. The security fears of the pre-pandemic days have nearly been wiped off. Maintaining your own IT infrastructure has been cumbersome,cost and tech intensive and moving to the cloud seems to be the only viable option. India got into the managed services IT market in a big way, decades back, and created companies and fortunes, companies which became home names in the country. Pathbreaking software products development revolutionising India and the world did not happen.
With the tectonic change in the IT industry in the last few years and AI becoming the buzzword and practice, the role of IT tech infrastructure becomes more critical than ever. This high end tech juggernaut has to run seamlessly, cost efficiently and with least amount of inconvenience and interruption both to the company offering the services and the users / customers. The modern data centres are positioned exactly in this slot and can become the game changers for the industry and the nation. Additionally, law provides for PII to be stored in the territorial jurisdiction of this country. South India is moving by leaps and bounds in this space.
South India is primarily represented by the Chennai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad trio which today stands at a combined installed capacity of approximately 200 MW with 190 MW currently under construction and an additional 170 MW planned. The Bangalore centric numbers are 79 MW already installed, with 10 MW under construction and 26 MW in planning stages. Given the present installed capacity, work under progress and planned projections of 80% increase in total capacity in the next few years, is bound to increase the regions importance is supporting the global digital infrastructure.
The anticipated 80% increase in data centre capacity of these 3 cities by 2030 highlights the region’s growing strategic importance in the digital infrastructure ecosystem. Governmental support has also been critical and consistency in development has been the key. Governments have supported the data centre creation through incentives; subsidies in land acquisition, reduced power tariff and tax breaks. Providing ease of business facilitation has also helped considerably. South India now seems to be tipped to become a global data centre hub. Sectorally, BFSI dominates the market accounting for nearly 35% of the total occupancy followed by IT firms and hyperscalers.
TECH INFRA LEADERSHIP CAN TRANSFORM ANY REGION BY ITS MULTIFARIOUS IMPACT.
Sanjay Sahay
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