Yotta Infrastructure, a subsidiary of the Hiranandani Group, on Wednesday (10th Jan 2024), announced that its state-of-the-art data centre facility, "Yotta G1", located in GIFT City, Gandhinagar, is ready for service.
The opening of this data center marks Yotta's debut in Gujarat. G1 represents an investment of over ₹500 crore. over five years across critical non-IT and IT/Cloud/AI compute infrastructure. The data centre has a capacity of over 350 high-density racks and 2 MW power (which can be scaled further as per demand).
G1 is Yotta's fifth data center facility in the country. It joins four large operational data centres, two of which, in Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida, are part of hyperscale campuses. Yotta G1 is uniquely situated inside the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) zone of Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) in Gandhinagar.
The facility is designed to meet the most demanding digital needs of its customers, whether located within GIFT City or anywhere in the world, by seamlessly delivering fault-tolerant facility infrastructure, high-performance Cloud compute and storage infrastructure, advanced physical and cyber security, unmatched connectivity, and steadfast sustainability.
For large global enterprises operating in the GIFT City IFSC zone, the G1 data centre functions as a potential data embassy, where the stored data is subject to the laws and regulations of their home country, allowing them to maintain sovereignty over their data.
Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, MD & CEO of Yotta Data Services, said, "Yotta's G1 marks a pivotal milestone in delivering high-end data centre, Cloud, AI compute, storage, connectivity, and cybersecurity services to enterprises both on a global and local scale in the Gujarat region. Besides serving domestic enterprises within and outside GIFT City, our data centre shall serve as a potential data embassy for global enterprises, enabling them to adhere to their respective country's laws while offering a dependable and secure locale for offshore data storage."
G1 offers a suite of key features, ranging from advanced data security and customised business solutions to an indigenous hyperscale cloud offering, AI-GPU compute offering, state-of-the-art infrastructure, cybersecurity expertise, seamless integration with managed IT services, 24/7 customer support, cost optimisation, and an overall competitive edge.
This announcement follows Yotta's recent launch of its cloud services — Shakti Cloud and Yntraa Cloud. Powered by Nvidia's top-of-the-line GPUs, Shakti Cloud is India's largest AI-HPC supercomputer, delivering cutting-edge GPU computing infrastructure, platforms, and services, including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Yntraa Cloud, on the other hand, is an indigenous hyperscale cloud platform on par with global cloud platforms, offering an exhaustive range of cloud products and services.
With over 138 data centres, India is currently the world’s 13th largest market. And 45 new data centres — covering 13 million square feet and 1,015 MW of capacity, are expected to pop up by the end of 2025, as per research by real estate services firm ANAROCK-Binswanger. In terms of cities, Mumbai has emerged as the biggest data centre destination today. Chennai, because of its undersea cable network, is at second spot. Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune follow closely behind.
