The Telangana government said tech giant Microsoft will expand its data center investment here. An official release from Telangana's IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao said, the upcoming projects were discussed at the Microsoft Cafe at Davos, Switzerland in the presence of Principal Secretary for IT and and Industries Jayesh Ranjan and Ahmed Mazhari, President, Asia, for Microsoft.
Microsoft announced its first captive data center investment of three campuses early in 2022. While the earlier investment commitment entailed three data centers in Hyderabad, they now target to reach six total data centers in the State with each center serving 100 MW of IT load on average, it said.
These data centers form an integral part of Microsoft's goal of strengthening its cloud infrastructure to serve Azure's customers in India and worldwide. All the six data centers are estimated to be deployed phase-wise in the next 10-15 years, it said.
Telangana had earlier signed a MoU with Microsoft to enable several beneficial activities such as skilling, internship programmes and cloud adoption. As part of Telangana's cloud adoption, the State is working with Microsoft Azure and other to ensure citizen services have the best of infrastructure as part of its tech stack.