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Singapore-headquartered ST Telemedia Global Data Centres is among the biggest data centre players in India.
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BENGALURU – The ready availability of power and land is among the main factors that have enabled data centre capacity in India to grow by 2.5 times since 2020, as developers set up facilities across the country amid a squeeze on these resources in traditional hubs like Singapore and the United States.
With one of the largest internet user bases in the world thanks to a 1.4 billion-strong population, India’s transformation into one of the fastest-growing destinations for new data centres is also powered by government policies that demand data localisation, as well as the skyrocketing domestic market for cloud services.
