The Web Werks – Iron Mountain data centers joint venture has acquired a four-acre land in Ambattur, Chennai, to house two new data centers (CHE-1 and CHE-2) to meet growing customer demand in the region.
The two data centers will be built to Tier III standards. They will support 36 megawatts of IT load, further enhancing the company’s rapidly growing pan-India footprint, which will support more than 90 megawatts of new development across the key markets of Pune, Bengaluru, Noida, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
“As Chennai is one of India’s most important connectivity hubs, we are thrilled to be building capacity to meet hyperscale, network, content, public sector undertakings and enterprise customer demand,” said Mark Kidd, EVP & Global General Manager, Iron Mountain Data Centers & Asset Lifecycle Management.
Chennai is emerging as one of India’s fastest-growing data center markets due to its strong interconnection with Singapore and the rest of Asia. The region also has a robust ecosystem of cloud service providers, network fabrics and multiple subsea cable landing stations.
“Data center ecosystems require submarine cables, local consumption and internet traffic to proliferate. Chennai is a desired location for data centers for those reasons, plus ample land, power and connectivity options,” said Nikhil Rathi, Founder & CEO of Web Werks Data Centers. “Located at a geographic high point, Ambattur is not prone to floods and is away from the typically crowded IT corridor,” he said.
Web Werks has put together a range of colocation and hosting services designed to deliver wholesale, retail and hyper-scale hosting facilities via strategically planned Tier 3 data center facilities in Mumbai, Delhi NCR and Pune, with a focus on strengthening the carrier, cloud and content-neutral interconnection ecosystem for businesses across India.
The Web Werks – Iron Mountain Data Centers joint venture plans to invest around Rs 7500 crore to roll out data centers across major cities in the country. The company plans to take its total capacity to 200MW from 40 MW and expand in towns like Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Noida.
India’s data center stock is likely to double to about 20 mn sq ft by 2025 from the current 10.3 mn sq ft, according to Colliers’ latest report, “Data center: Scaling up in Green age”. India currently has about 770 MW data center capacity across the top seven cities.
The growth of data centers in India has been led by a massive explosion of data consumption through digitization, and increased cloud adoption, amongst others., over the last two years. At the same time, data center operators are enthused by the incentives such as subsidized land, stamp duty exemption, etc., provided by several states.
