NTT Opens 22MW Data Centre at Second Campus in India’s Noida

NTT Ltd has launched its second data centre campus in India’s National Capital Region, with the company completing delivery of a 22.4-megawatt facility as the first stage of the complex in Noida.

Dubbed Noida 2, the 6 acre (2.4 hectare) campus in the satellite city southeast of Delhi will support a planned capacity of 52.8MW across two data centres upon completion, NTT said late last week in a release. The campus is billed as the first in India to incorporate seismic dampers, ensuring uninterrupted operations during significant seismic events.

The world’s most populous country is a “priority region” in the group’s global strategic roadmap of data centre capacity expansion, said Doug Adams, president and CEO of NTT Global Data Centers and Submarine Cable.

“With this new site we reaffirm our commitment to delivering reliable infrastructure that can support the demands of our clients’ digital transformation ambitions around the globe,” Adams said.

Growing Footprint

London-based NTT Ltd was formed in July 2019 to consolidate the Japanese telecom group’s regional data centre brands. The launch of Noida 2 increases the India footprint of NTT’s Global Data Centers arm to more than 265MW across 18 facilities in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru.

“Clients will now be able to access our trusted data centre services, from an interconnected campus in North India,” said Shekhar Sharma, CEO of NTT Global Data Centers India. “As India’s digital economy accelerates towards the one trillion dollar milestone, we will continue to provide the infrastructure for this growth.”

Also last week, NTT announced the opening of its 62MW Mumbai 9 data centre at the flagship campus in the centre of India’s financial hub, adding to an interconnected network in the country that now spans more than 3.1 million square feet (290,000 square metres) of server space.

Colliers reported last October that India’s data centre stock was likely to double in the next three years to 23 million square feet, with investment in the segment rising 40 percent to $10 billion compared with the previous three years.

Regional Roll-Out

NTT’s latest milestones in India come after the group last year unveiled its third data centre in Thailand and opened a sixth facility in Malaysia’s Cyberjaya.

Located 57 kilometres (35.4 miles) from central Bangkok at Amata City Chonburi industrial estate in the Eastern Economic Corridor, the 12MW BKK3 will provide more than 43,000 square feet of IT space when fully built out. The data centre is scheduled to begin operations in the second half of 2024 on a site adjacent to the 3.6MW BKK2.

The $50 million CBJ6 went live in October, adding 7MW of capacity to NTT’s campus at the Cyberjaya tech hub south of Kuala Lumpur. The group also has data centres in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.