CtrlS Datacenters to invest Rs 4,000 crore in Chennai data centre park

Hyderabad-based CtrlS Datacenters on Wednesday unveiled its upcoming data centre park in Chennai and said it will invest Rs 4,000 crore in the facility in phase.

“Chennai is the second largest data centre market in India and holds strategic significance because of the presence of large number of subsea cable landing stations, coupled with the growing presence of enterprises and cloud service providers in the region,” Sridhar Pinnapureddy, CEO, CtrlS Datacenters, said in a statement.

The Chennai campus, located in the Ambattur industrial area, will be the company’s fifth hyperscale data centre campus in the country, after those in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida and Bengaluru. It is expected to create about 500 direct jobs and 9,000 indirect jobs.


“The campus will include two data centre buildings with a combined built-up area of almost 1 million square feet, and 72 MW IT load capacity. The first data centre building (Chennai DC 1) is fully booked, and will begin operations in Q2 2024. The second data centre building (Chennai DC 2) is slated to be launched in the second half of 2024 – and is presently accepting bookings,” the company said.