Context: Recently, Uttar Pradesh CM inaugurated North India’s first hyperscale data centre ‘Yotta D1’ in Greater Noida.

Hyperscale Data Centre

• A data Centre is a dedicated space or building that houses an organization’s IT equipment and servers. The company can draw on its data center resources to operate its business or serve those resources to the public as a service.

• A Hyperscale data center is essentially the premise that provides space, power and cooling for network infrastructure designed specifically for offering a portfolio of highly scalable applications and storage services to businesses. 

About Yotta D1

• Yotta D1 is North India’s first hyperscale data centre.

• Located in: Greater Noida, UP

• Built by: Yotta Infrastructure, part of Hiranandani Group

• The data centre is spread across 20 acres and will offer a total capacity of 30,000 racks, 4 dedicated fiber paths and an IT power capacity of 160 MW. 

• Purpose: It will cater to the full spectrum of digital transformation needs with an elaborate portfolio of solutions that include data center colocation services, network and connectivity, internet peering, IT security and smart cybersecurity and a host of application modernisation and cloud-enabled services.

• Significance: This data center will increase the data storage capacity of the country, which until now stood at 2% only despite the fact that 1.5 billion mobile phones and 650 million internet users in the world are from India using 20 percent of data.