Down the corridors in the engines of digital India

I n the far reaches of Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, an electricity substation – spread over 10,000 square metres and fenced off from wanderers – hums on. Its purpose: to provide a dedicated and unbroken stream of electricity to a 60-metre-high building. This is ND1, Yotta Infrastructure’s data centre in the National Capital Region, one of many complexes to come up around cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and, most recently, Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

Yotta’s data centre is, compared with the newest projects announced, mid-sized, but even at this scale, workers appear like pins on the upper floors’ scaffolding on ND2, an identical tower being built right next to the first one, which is already operational. ND2 isn’t the only one – four others are under construction.

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