CtrlS announces big expansion plans

CtrlS has made some big expansion announcements this week. The company, founded back in 2007, with a portfolio of eight operational data centers, spanning from Mumbai to Noida, has said it will triple its data center portfolio by 2025, taking its figure to 25. This will see the company expand internationally, too, and it is currently looking into opportunities in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

According to the company, right now, it is in talks about opportunities in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and aims for these global data centers to have a capacity in the range of 10-50MW.

Speaking about the expansion announcement, Sridhar Pinnapureddy, chairman at CtrlS, said: "We are fully geared up to emerge as the world's largest [Tia-942] rated-4 data center player."

Adding: "In addition to these large DC Parks, CtrlS Datacenters is also setting up a hyperscale datacenter facility in Kolkata, which is a key gateway to Northeast."

CtrlS president and chief business officer Royce Thomas commented: "Southeast Asia and the Middle East have emerged as our priority markets as digitalization is at its peak here. Several enterprises in these markets have drawn up their digital transformation roadmap, and CtrlS will enable them in their path."