Synopsis
The policy aims at developing 250 MW of data centre industries in the state and setting up at least three modern private data centre parks.
ANI
LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved a data centre policy to further give a boost to proposals for setting up data centres in the state, in line with the centre s push for localising storage of data. The policy aims at bringing in investment worth Rs 20,000 crore.
The policy that has been in the works comes at a time the state is seeing interest from many players wanting to set up data centres in UP. Last year, the state allotted land to the Hiranandani group s Yotta Infrastructure that will be investing Rs 7,000 crore in the Greater Noida region. Another firm NTT Ltd India recently got allotted six acres of land for bringing up 70 MW of capacity data centre, again in the Greater Noida region. The state has also evinced interest from STT Global Data Centres India (formerly known as Tata Communications Data Cent