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Thirst Trap: Water sustainability issues loom over India's booming data centre industry
India's data centre industry is booming, driven by significant investments from companies like Adani Enterprises. However, this growth raises concerns about the substantial water consumption needed for cooling in water-scarce cities. Operators are adopting alternative cooling technologies like air-cooled chillers to reduce water use. Despite these efforts, India lacks a national policy on data centre water usage. Experts call for sustainable practices to balance industry growth with water conservation.
All that SaaS; AI woes
Happy Friday! Goldman Sachs is likely to increase its stake in SaaS startup MoEngage. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
How Indian data centre operators are mitigating AI power consumption woes
Indian data centre operators are racing to reduce the massive power consumption of AI infrastructure. As the country prepares to acquire 100,000 GPUs by 2024, concerns over sustainability and environmental impact are mounting.
Data storage cos in a sweat over need to stay cool
Data centers in western and northern India are facing rising operational costs due to soaring temperatures. Firms like Yotta and CtrlS are using alternative cooling methods and renewable energy, while ESDS reports a 10-12% rise in power costs due to erratic grid supply. Several of these data centres are located in New Delhi, Haryana, Noida.
CtrlS Datacenters to invest Rs 4,000 crore in Chennai data centre park
The Chennai campus, in the Ambattur industrial area, will be the company’s fifth hyperscale data centre campus in the country, after those in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida and Bengaluru. It is expected to create about 500 direct jobs and 9,000 indirect jobs.
Intel sets up R&D lab at CtrlS Bengaluru data center
This facility is the latest extension of Intel’s global advanced data center development labs. This is an at-scale facility for developing new microprocessor architectures.
What’s powering Generative AI: The intelligent data centres
Generative AI applications require massive computing power, which means the data centre industry needs to get ready for an exponential surge in the near future. Here's how the top tech companies be it an MNC like HPE or AMDor homegrown firms like Airtel’s Nxtra or Hiranandani’s Yotta are gearing up for the ride.
Data Centre business: How India can become a powerhouse of storehouses
There’s an unprecedented boom in the industry. With 830 million smartphone users by end-2022, India’s digital economy has spurred exponential growth in the quantum of data generated. What’s helped even more is GoI’s mandate in its Data Protection Bill proposing that various types of information need to be stored within the country.
Intel launches new processor for data centre platform
The US-based technology giant launched the 3rd gen Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Ice Lake) on Tuesday and said that this would be the foundation of its data centre platform.
Indian data centres got $396 million investments in 2020, $9.5 billion waiting to be put in: Study
According to a report by Mumbai-based property consulting firm Anarock, India’s data centres received $977 million in private equity and strategic investments since 2008, of which nearly 40% or approximately $396 million were infused between the January-September 2020 period alone.
CtrlS plans to invest Rs 626 crore in two new data centres
While IBM has already started its first datacentre in Mumbai, Microsoft has announced a Rs 1,400 cre investment in setting up three data centres.
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