Government planning scheme to incentivise investments into hyperscale data centres
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Last Updated: Apr 22, 2021, 07:27 PM IST
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In November last year, Meity had released the draft data centre policy which proposed to designate data centres as infrastructure and to group centres under the essential services category among other measures.
The government is formulating a scheme to incentivise investments to set-up hyperscale data centres in India and boost the capacity of the existing data centre ecosystem, besides working on new segments like drones and robotics to develop their manufacturing ecosystem in India, a top official said.
“We have prepared a scheme or policy on hyperscale data centers, and also a scheme for incentivizing investments in hyperscale data centers here in India. The current scale of hyperscale data centres in India compared in terms of power consumed is 200 MegaWatts and our effort will be to come out with a policy and scheme that aim