North India first data center in Greater Noida
- November 1, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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North India first data center in Greater Noida
Subject: Science and Technology
Context:
- Recently North India’s Firstdata centre ‘Yotta D1’ in Greater Noida was inaugurated by UP CM Adityanath.
- What is data center:
- It is a dedicated secure space within a building/centralized location where computing and networking equipment is concentrated for the purpose of collecting, storing, processing, distributing or allowing access to large amounts of data.
- What is data center park:
- These are specialized secure Data Zone, strategically located with the most conducive non-IT and IT infrastructure, and regulatory environment for housing a mix of small scale/large scale clusters of Data Centres to serve the high needs of compute, storage, networking and provision of a wide range of data-related services.
- More about ‘Yotta Data Center’:
- Yotta Data Center Park at Greater Noida will have six Data center buildings with a total capacity of 30000 racks and IT power capacity of 250 megawatts.
- The digital infrastructure will be supported by renewable power and three redundant fiber paths for enhanced connectivity.
- This will be North India’s first hyperscale data center park.
- Yotta D1 features Internet peering exchanges and direct fibre connectivity to and from global cloud operators, making it extremely useful for global connectivity.