The Telangana government said that software giant Microsoft will spend Rs 16,000 crore to build three more data centres, bringing the total number of centres under consideration to six.
Early in 2022, the IT company revealed plans to invest Rs 16,000 crore in three sites for its first captive data centre. An official release stated that with the latest news, Microsoft would now be planning to build six data centres in this region.
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.
In a testament to Telangana and Microsoft’s commitment to help each other grow, Microsoft announced its first captive data centre investment of three campuses early in 2022.
