Adani ties up with Digital Realty to open data centre

Adani
The Adani Group has formed a joint venture with Digital Realty, a San Francisco-based American player in data centre, co-location and interconnection solutions, to jointly evaluate development and operation of data centres and data centre parks, besides cultivating undersea cable provider communities of interest across India. As per the terms and conditions of the MoU, the collaboration would leverage Digital Realty's experience and solutions for their global data centre customer base. Commenting on the development, Adani Group Chairman, Gautam Adani, said that data centre infrastructure is critical to enable a Digital India and this partnership leverages several of the capabilities developed by the Adani Group in power generation, transmission, retail electricity distribution, access to waterfronts through the ports business, and real estate management. Also, as one of the top five renewable energy companies in the world, its ability to power its data centres with solar and wind energy is unique and addresses some of the challenges of building and operating data centres. The skill sets of the two companies are complementary, and together they can provide unmatched products and solutions to customers in India. Digital Realty CEO, A. William Stein, said that the strong engineering and project management capabilities of the two companies will also enable them to execute in a complex environment and deliver facilities on time, with the required high uptime levels.

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