Oversize #9: All set to reap the data centre dividend

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Editor's note: Established in 1978, the Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group is one of the largest real estate developers in India. The group also owns the world’s second largest data centre. Hang on, this is still about big tech, not a piece on real estate. A data centre hosts physical computing infrastructure at secure facilities allowing organizations to remotely store, process, and disseminate data. What you refer to as ‘cloud’ in computing jargon is essentially these data centres. While large public cloud vendors have been setting up shop in India in the last decade, the market has always been dominated by local players. There’s Hyderabad-based CtrlS, Sify Technologies (one of the first internet service providers in India and now one of the largest data centre operators) and Netmagic (probably India’s first pure-play private data centre service provider, acquired by NTT Communications), to name a few. All these organizations were technology companies of some sort. Enter Yotta. Niranjan Hiranandani and Surendra Hiranandani—the billionaire Hiranandani brothers—set up a subsidiary, Yotta Infrastructure, in 2019 to design, build, and operate large-scale hyper-density data centre parks in India. The …