March 25, 2024 India / Bhārata
Police in India have arrested nine people for stealing cell tower equipment worth 60 lakh across Telangana state. The gang stole a variety of equipment from various sites, including Remote Radio Units (RRUs), Remote Radio Heads (RRHs), Base Band Units (BBUs), and cell tower cable wires of Bharti...
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March 09, 2024 India / Bhārata
Singapore's Singtel has sold an 0.8 percent stake in Indian telco Bharti Airtel for S$950 million ($710m) to US-based investment firm GQG Partners, trimming it’s stake in the company from 29.8 percent to 29 percent. The company plans to invest the funds in data centers and IT services. "Last...
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March 08, 2024 India / Bhārata
Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) this week announced the acquisition of a 10-acre plot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu for a new data center development. The company had previously revealed its intention to expand into India last year with a large campus in Mumbai. In September it then said it was...
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February 29, 2024 Bangladesh
Robi Axiata subsidiary Axentec PLC has launched a Tier IV-standard data center called "Cypher", located in the Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jashore and spans 16,500 square feet. This prefabricated facility will offer 2N redundancy and fault-tolerant power backup systems for its...
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February 19, 2024 India / Bhārata
Indian startup PlanckDot, a start-up specializing in Edge data centers, has secured $1.6 million in funding from high-net-worth angel investors for its Edge data center roll-out. According to the company’s website, it builds and deploys digital infrastructures and EV charging stations. Its...
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November 14, 2023 India / Bhārata
Singapore's CapitaLand India Trust (CLINT) has secured a Rs 1,300 crore ($155.9m) five-year construction loan to develop its data center facility in Navi Mumbai. India. This fund, secured by J.P. Morgan India, will be used to finance the first phase of construction of the data center. Sanjeev...
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October 27, 2023 Bangladesh
A fire that broke out on the 13th floor of the 14-story Khawaja Tower in the Mohakali district of the Bangladesh capital yesterday killed three people and severely disrupted the Internet in Bangladesh. The fire broke out at 16:58, and the Dhaka fire department arrived at the location at 17:07 and...
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October 16, 2023 India / Bhārata
Indian data center company CtrlS Datacenters plans to invest $2 billion over the next six years for its expansion across Asia and the Middle East. The company plans to add 350MW of AI and cloud-ready hyperscale data center capacity to its existing 234MW capacity. Sridhar Pinnapureddy, founder and...
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October 09, 2023 India / Bhārata
India's DLF has revealed plans to invest Rs 3,400 crore in its DLF Techpark and data centers in Noida, India. This park, located in Sector 143 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, spans over 25 acres as over 1.2 million square feet of housing, IT blocks, and data center space have been constructed on it so...
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October 02, 2023 India / Bhārata
West Bengal Electronics Industry Development Corporation Limited (Webel) is considering a new data center in Siliguri, the Indian state of West Bengal. This new data center will be Webel’s third facility focused on promoting the IT and electronics industries in the Indian state. A senior officer...
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September 28, 2023 India / Bhārata
CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) recently began working on its 40MW data center in Hyderabad, India. The company announced that it has started operations for the first phase of the newly redeveloped International Tech Park at the IT hub of Madhapur. CLI hosted a ceremony celebrating the...
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September 19, 2023 Bangladesh
DataVolt, a new Saudi company, is planning a data center campus outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. Local media report that the company intends to invest $100 million to construct a data center on three acres of land in the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in the Kaliakair district of Gazpur. The announcement was...
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September 07, 2023 India / Bhārata
Nvidia has partnered with Reliance Industries and Tata Group, India's two largest firms by market cap. The two companies will construct internal and external AI supercomputers and cloud platforms using Nvidia hardware. With Reliance, Nvidia will construct AI infrastructure "over an order of...
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September 05, 2023 India / Bhārata
The Indian real estate development company Anant Raj will enter the data center industry. The company announced on its social media and local publications that it will invest $1.2 billion to develop up to 300MW capacity in the county. The company has set up Anant Raj Cloud Pvt. Ltd. as a...
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August 14, 2023 India / Bhārata
India's Greater Noida will soon house a data center dedicated to quantum computation. On August 11, the Utter Pradesh (UP) Government and Innogress, a project promoter, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Indraprastha Quantum Data Center (IQDC). As a joint venture between Innogress...
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August 01, 2023 India / Bhārata
Over the next five years, AMD plans to invest approximately $400 million in India. With this investment, a new AMD campus will be constructed in Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka. This will be the company's largest design center, and it is anticipated that approximately 3,000 new engineering...
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July 17, 2023 India / Bhārata
PowerGrid, an Indian transmission corporation, plans to construct a data center on a substation site outside of Delhi. This week, PowerGrid's board authorized a revised investment proposal for the 'establishment of an experimental data center at PowerGrid Manesar Substation,' according to an...
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June 28, 2023 India / Bhārata
RailTel, an IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded a $35.9 million contract by TASMAC, a Tamil state-owned beverage corporation. RailTel will provide TASMAC with end-to-end automation and connectivity five years into the contract. This will extend to RailTel providing the project's...
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June 12, 2023 South Asia
A new data center has been opened by the University of Turbat (UoT) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar inaugurated the conclusion of the first phase and the first phase of the 1MW solar initiative at the university. The capacity of the data center is unknown at this...
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June 09, 2023 Mumbai
Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has signed a 25-year power consumption agreement (PCA) with Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) to procure solar energy in India. The deal will see the data center firm receive power generated by a solar project located in Nanded district, Maharashtra. This...
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