Ya'll Nibbiars From a Electricity deficit city to data surplus how Navi Mumbai over came the IT drought and Data centres.
At present, over half of the datacentre capacity of the country is concentrated in Mumbai and estimates suggest the same contribution to continue even and may even increase even more as the industry grows significantly owing to increased digital adoption. They attributed the high interest in the financial capital to factors like cable landing, power availability and stability, dense fibre networks and supportive government policies. And in the last three years, over half of the overall 240 MW of datacentres added nationally have been in Mumbai or around. The overall capacity in Mumbai presently stands at 200 MW, and is expected to more than double to 490 MW by 2023, pointing out that the stretch from Airoli to Mahape in Navi Mumbai is a hub.
The state can earmark up to 250 acres in a 900 acres of land aggregated by the MIDC at Navi Mumbai's Taloja for datacentres. And another 200 acres in Navi Mumbai is the first step for the growth of datacentres business, and also about committing space near Pune and Nagpur for such facilities. The MIDC can acquire even small tracts of land of up to 10 acres for datacentres by invoking "statutory" provisions, so that the industry gets un-encumbered land. The state will be able to do more once its new policy on information technology and information technology enabled services comes in, and added that the MIDC expects a government resolution on the same in the next one month.
8 years ago MMR was not even in top five position for the data center. But during the Fadnavis era become the leader with 50 percent market share now. With pune added this is even more.
Similary Chennai also over came the data centr droughts.
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