Data Ops: After Yotta, UP to get 7 More Centres Under Amended Data Policy
News 18The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved amendments to the Data Centre 2021 policy to facilitate the opening of more data centres in the state. At the recent inaugural ceremony of UP’s first and India’s second data centre in Greater Noida, CM Yogi Adityanath stated that he sees the state as the hub of data centres in the future. During the event, while talking about the Yotta Data centre, Adityanath said: “We can see that the state government announced a data centre policy last year that called for the construction of 250-megawatt data centres in UP with an investment of Rs 20,000 crore over the next six years.” “We are able to accomplish the goal very soon,” he added. “But in the first year of this policy, it has achieved Rs 20,000 crore worth of investments and as of now we have received proposals of 600-megawatt data centres,” he added. The latest release also stated that STP, based in Singapore, will invest Rs 1,130 crore in the establishment of a data centre in Noida, while SKBR will invest Rs 2,692 crore.