Japan’s NTT To Double Its Data Centre Presence in India

NTT Ltd., a worldwide technology services company based in Japan, plans to more than double its data centre presence in India over the next three years, with six data centre parks expected to open.

NTT India’s chief executive officer, Mr. Sharad Sanghi, said, “We have invested in six data centre parks around the country, and we are growing these. Five have already been signed, and building is underway in various stages, with the sixth one nearing completion.”

NTT, the world’s third largest data centre company, announced a US$ 2 billion investment in new data centres, MIST cable, and renewable energy facilities around the world. India is likely to account for a major portion of this. In the country, the corporation currently has around 1.8 million square feet of floor area.

In Mumbai’s Chandivali data centre park, one 85 MW data centre will be operational soon. Over the next 18 months, four new hyperscale data centre parks will open in India, two in Navi Mumbai and one each in Chennai and Delhi, with a total floor space of around 50,000 square metres (roughly 540,000 sq ft) and an IT load of around 133 MW. In 2021, 10 data centres across India will be interconnected, and submarine cable landing stations will be built in Mumbai and Chennai.

NTT said it has expanded its global data centre footprint by 20%. It has data centres across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia, as well as a significant presence in India.

NTT is now building the ‘MIST’ large-capacity submarine cable system connecting Myanmar, Malaysia, India, and Singapore, in addition to expanding its data centre presence. The cable system, which would connect Mumbai and Chennai, will be 11,000 kilometres long–far longer than flying from New York to Tokyo via the United States and the Pacific Ocean. MIST is expected to be completed in the middle of 2023.