CtrlS proclaims ₹4,000-crore funding to construct hyperscale datacentre park in Chennai

CtrlS Datacentres, a homegrown datacentre agency with a community of 15 datacentres in India and overseas, has introduced an funding of ₹4,000 crore to arrange a hyperscale datacentre advanced in Chennai. That is their fifth hyperscale datacentre advanced within the nation after Mumbai, Noida, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

“We’re going to make investments ₹4,000 crore on our Chennai campus. It can generate 500 direct jobs and over 9,000 oblique jobs,”  Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and Chief Government Officer of CtrlS Datacenters, stated.

Positioned within the Ambattur industrial space, the campus would have two datacentre buildings with a mixed built-up space of just about a million sq ft, and 72-MW IT load capability.

Operations in Q2

“The primary datacentre constructing (Chennai DC 1) is totally booked, and can start operations within the second quarter this calendar yr. The second datacentre constructing (Chennai DC 2) can be prepared within the second half. We’re accepting bookings,” he stated.

The power is earthquake-resistant with a capability to face up to earthquakes as much as a magnitude of seven.5 on the Richter scale. It’s also flood-proof as it’s positioned 14 metres above sea degree. The datacentre buildings are additional elevated by 2.2 metres. 

“Chennai is the second-largest datacentre market in India and holds strategic significance due to the presence of enormous variety of subsea cable touchdown stations,” he stated in an announcement on Wednesday.