ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a data centre service provider headquartered in Singapore, has reportedly proposed plans for a greenfield data centre campus in Noida, India.
According to the Data Center Dynamics website, the Indian division of the firm wants to build a new campus in Noida, which is a ‘planned city’ located in Uttar Pradesh. It is a satellite city of Delhi and part of the National Capital Region (NCR) of India. Noida is short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority.
An STT GDC India representative has apparently said that the first phase of developing the campus would require an investment of around $82 million and offer IT capacity of 18 MW.
The proposed data centre campus will provide services to major cloud players, hyper-scalers, and large enterprises. It is planned to be scalable to reach 36MW capacity in the second phase of development, although this is estimated to need close to $70 million more investment. Three acres of land has already been identified on which the centre could be built.
The project will create a number of direct and indirect job opportunities, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the Uttar Pradesh chief minister has been on record as saying that the region’s government was hoping to attract more data centre investment into the Noida area.
Another big data centre industry name, Yotta Infrastructure, last year announced it was developing a 20-acre hyperscale data centre park in the Greater Noida region for around $950 million, in addition to a recently inaugurated centre near Mumbai and another planed centre in Chennai.
STT currently has 16 facilities across cities in India, including three data centres in and around Delhi.
