Two data centers will support growing hyperscale and enterprise demand
Web Werks and Iron Mountain Data Centers JV will construct two new Tier III data centers, CHE-1 and CHE-2, on a four-acre parcel in Ambattur, Chennai, to meet increasing customer demand. These facilities will provide 36 megawatts of IT capacity, strengthening the company’s expanding presence in India with over 90 megawatts of development across Pune, Bangalore, Noida, Mumbai, and Hyderabad.
Chennai is emerging as one of India’s fastest-growing data center markets due to its strong interconnection with Singapore and the rest of Asia, its surplus of power, connectivity to landlocked cities and its ideal geographic location for a disaster recovery site. The region also has a robust ecosystem of cloud service providers, network fabrics and multiple subsea cable landing stations.
Data center ecosystems require submarine cables, local consumption and internet traffic to proliferate
Nikhil Rathi, Founder & CEO of Web Werks Data Centers
“As Chennai is one of India’s most important connectivity hubs, we are thrilled to be building capacity to meet hyperscale, network, content, public sector undertakings and enterprise customer demand,” stated Mark Kidd, EVP & Global General Manager, Iron Mountain Data Centers & Asset Lifecycle Management. “Our Pan-India expansion is focused on supporting our customers through their digital transformations and leveraging the rapid digital growth in the country. We look forward to bringing our core competencies of energy efficient, network dense and highly secure colocation data centers to this thriving market.”
“Data center ecosystems require submarine cables, local consumption and internet traffic to proliferate. Chennai is a desired location for data centers for those reasons plus ample land, power and connectivity options,” said Nikhil Rathi, Founder & CEO of Web Werks Data Centers.”
