India's first risk-averse data centre in Bhopal

Bhopal will soon boast of India’s first risk-averse data centre which can even withstand an earthquake of seven on the Richter scale for two minutes and remain intact from a nuclear attack.

Sprawling over 80,000 sq ft in a prime locality, the data centre has a bunker area of concrete wall and a gigantic structure for data centre on 4000 sq ft.

“This space is reserved for those companies that require a risk-averse data centre,” Anurag Shritastava, managing director of Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation told Business Standard. He added, “We will try to have clients like Government of India or banks, since we will have a precision cooling system, security surveillance and a back-up at Hyderabad.”

 

There will be containerisation in data centre cooling. “We will have targeted cooling, to where the cooling is needed most,” he explained. The state government will also put all its data in the centre and will also have enough space for companies, banks or even governments to keep data here.

This, he claimed, will be the first planned data centre created by any state government, which will offer a framework to help data centres establish the necessary systems and processes.

The data centre will have necessary infrastructure for companies which will be interested in warehousing their data. The building will have two storeys.

Bhopal is among the safe seismic zones in India and this infrastructure is likely to attract a number of companies. “The data centre has enough space to keep entire countries’ data in a safe and secure zones,” Shrivastava added. The construction work on the centre is going on and it will ready to be leased out by year-end.