MUMBAI: NTT DATA, a global digital business and technology services leader, today announced a series of strategic initiatives reinforcing its continued commitment to the Indian market. Among these, the company announced the commissioning of its Malaysia, India, and Singapore Transit (MIST) submarine cable system by June 2025. MIST is an 8,100-kilometer cable that can carry over 200 terabits per second (Tbps). It is one of the largest cables in Asia and will connect Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Thailand.

It marks a milestone as NTT DATA’s first cable system to establish direct connectivity to and from India, enhancing global connectivity and adding critical infrastructure for the country’s rapidly growing digital economy. MIST was connected to NTT DATA’s Mumbai landing station in February 2023 and its Chennai landing station in May 2023.

NTT has been growing and investing in India for over a decade. Adding to that, NTT DATA has now opened its biggest data center campus in India, a facility that can hold over 500 MW of power, when fully operational. The company operates almost two-thirds of its data centers in India on renewable energy. It is committed to using 100% renewable energy by 2030 in all its data centers and operations. Featuring advanced infrastructure, including an underground tunnel for seamless connectivity and cooling technologies, the campus highlights safety, innovation, and sustainability.

As the third-largest data center provider globally, and the largest in India, NTT DATA is scaling its global capacity from over 1,500 MW to exceed 2,000 MW. With significant growth in India, where it holds the leading market share, it aims to add 400 MW more in the coming years. NTT DATA is the only data center service provider with over 200 MW of AI load already deployed worldwide. While the world is talking about being AI-ready, NTT DATA is AI-experienced.

NTT DATA also announced that it is upgrading and expanding its Innovation Centre in Bengaluru, India. The center will focus on AI, digital twin, and quantum computing projects. With this, the company has 11 global innovation centers across 11 countries that will boost the hiring of specialized talent to manage projects for global companies, driving AI-led technology solutions, particularly with agentic AI.

Dedicated to boosting connectivity, NTT’s Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN), a next-generation All-Photonics Network (APN) technology has been used to interconnect data centers in the Mumbai region, facilitating higher performance data transmission at lower costs. IOWN’s first information and communication processing infrastructure in India is in its early implementation stages. It aims to provide fast, high-capacity network access using photonics-based technologies. NTT is working hard to make this technology available to organizations globally by 2030, to support the growing AI-driven global data volume which is likely to reach a capacity of 175 zettabytes by 2025 – nearly triple from 2020 to 2025, as per IDC’s ‘Data Age 2025’ paper. It elaborates – if we were to store 175 zettabytes on DVDs, the stack of DVDs would be long enough to circle Earth 222 times.

“India is key in our global strategy, fuelled by its rapid economic and digital expansion.  We’re proud to say that NTT DATA has powered the IT infrastructure in India and globally, notably in data center capacity. Currently, India is one of our top 10 revenue-generating markets,” said Akira Shimada, President and CEO, of NTT. “We are investing 8 trillion Yen (US$59 billion*) globally over 5 years from FY2023 to FY2027 into growth areas, including data centers and AI. We are committed to delivering our integrated full-stack proposition to our clients across Data Centers, Networks, Applications, BPaaS, Managed Services, Cloud, Security, and AI solutions.”

“We are proud to accelerate India’s digital future with the commissioning of MIST—the latest milestone in strengthening global digital highways that connect new markets and power AI innovation. Our MIST cable landing at the Gateway of India, Mumbai truly serves as India’s gateway to the world,” said Abhijit Dubey, CEO, of NTT DATA, Inc. “Our USD 3 billion investment in India’s digital infrastructure over the last decade reflects our confidence in the region’s exceptional talent and robust tech ecosystem. We remain committed to expanding our presence and strategic investments in the country that will elevate India to one of our top five markets within the next three years.” 

“The Indian economy is currently in a growth phase both as a top market and a hub of innovation, talent, and opportunity,” said Avinash Joshi, CEO, India, NTT DATA. “Over the years we have grown through acquisitions and currently have 3000 clients in India. We will continue to build on this momentum to drive transformation across key industries such as banking, manufacturing,g and automotive. We are witnessing an era of evolutionary tech and are confident in our ability to robustly meet the demand in the areas of technology solutions, data centers, infrastructure management, and applications.”

*At the exchange rate of 1 USD = 135.2 JPY as of May 10, 2023, according to NTT’s financial announcement date.

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This project, underscores Bajel’s strategic entry into the rapidly growing data center market driven by India’s digital transformation, increasing demand for data storage and processing capabilities. Bajel will leverage its extensive expertise in Design, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) to deliver critical power infrastructure solutions. The project will feature a combination of lattice towers & monopoles, conductors along other essential components like a GIS Substation, ensuring a reliable, efficient, and round-the-clock power supply.

Bajel is committed to completing this project within the stipulated timeframe. The project will be executed with strict adherence to quality and safety standards, further solidifying Bajel’s reputation for safety and operational excellence.

Rajesh Ganesh, MD and CEO of Bajel Projects said, “The exponential growth of data centers in India, fuelled by cloud adoption, e-commerce, digital services, and localization, presents a compelling opportunity for us. We’re strategically building capabilities in GIS and Monopoles to become a trusted partner for data center developers in their pursuit of reliable and sustainable power infrastructure.”

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INDIA: Danfoss and Hewlett Packard Enterprise recently announced their collaboration to deliver HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery, an off-the shelf heat recovery module, helping organizations manage and value excess[1] heat as they transition towards more sustainable IT facilities.

The rapid integration of AI technologies across organizations and businesses is expected to have a dramatic increase in the power demand and utilization of AI optimized IT infrastructure. According to the International Energy Agency, by 2026 the AI industry is expected to have grown exponentially to consume at least ten times its electricity demand in 2023[2]. To mitigate these challenges, IT leaders and data center facility operators are taking action to reduce energy usage, such as implementing modern power-efficient capabilities and improved cooling systems. Excess heat in the EU alone represents an estimated 2,860 TWh/y, almost equal to the EU’s total energy demand for heat and hot water in residential and service sector buildings[3]. The flow of excess heat from data centers is uninterruptible and therefore constitutes a very reliable source of clean energy.

Ravichandran Purushothaman, President, of Danfoss India, said, “Sustainability is at the heart of our partnership with HPE. By harnessing excess heat, we’re not only reducing energy consumption but also creating a reliable source of clean energy. Danfoss’ heat reuse modules will make it possible to capture and reuse heat produced by data centres, providing a renewable energy source to supply heating on site and to neighbouring commercial and residential buildings, communities and industries that need heat for their processes.”

Benefits and agility of modularity
HPE’s MDC incorporates direct liquid cooling (DLC) technologies to enhance energy efficiency by over 20% and optimize energy production and distribution, leading to notable energy savings. The design’s compactness minimizes energy loss by reducing the distance for energy and cooling fluid transport and maximizes the temperature differential at the inlet and outlet, which promotes the capture of excess heat. Furthermore, the MDC’s agility and the exclusion of heavy industrial materials negate the need for costly, conventional building materials and substantially reduces the time to market. Deployment can be achieved three times quicker than with traditional data centers, decreasing from 18 months to as few as 6 months. Finally, the reduced land footprint and flexibility of the MDCs allow for placement in proximity to data generation sites, which diminishes the energy impact and bottlenecks associated with complex networking solutions and data transfer, while also supporting enhanced data governance and security.

To address these issues, the new energy efficient data center solution from Danfoss & HPE offers:

• Danfoss’ innovative solutions include heat reuse modules that capture excess heat from data centers to provide renewable heating onsite and to neighboring buildings and industries for various applications, and Turbocor® oil-free compressors that enhance data center cooling efficiency by up to 30%.
• HPE’s scalable Modular Data Center (MDC), in the form of small footprint, high-density (kW/rack) containers, can be deployed nearly anywhere in the total absence of heavy industry and incorporates technologies such as direct liquid cooling, reducing overall energy consumption by 20%.

“Our strategic partnership with HPE is a great example of how we revolutionize building and decarbonizing the data center industry together with customers,” said Jürgen Fischer, President, of Danfoss Climate Solutions. “With this latest cross-industry partnership we’re building the blueprint for the next generation of sustainable datacenters – using technologies available today”.

With unparalleled density, HPE’s modular data centers offer an impressive power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1  in contrast to the PUE of 1.3 to 1.4 typically associated with the best modern designs of traditional brick-and-mortar data centers. Capable of handling the most power-demanding architectures like HPE Cray Supercomputing EX4000, HPE’s modular data center is the adequate architecture for mission critical and compute intensive workloads like supercomputing and generative AI, enabling scientists, universities, and enterprises to achieve faster outcomes.

“At HPE, we believe in the power of collaboration to create transformative solutions,” said Sue Preston, Vice President & General Manager, WW Advisory & Professional Services & Managed Services, HPE. “Our partnership with Danfoss brings together HPE’s innovative modular data center with Danfoss’ groundbreaking heat reuse technology. Together, we are not just adding value; we are multiplying it. By harnessing the typically untapped resource of waste heat, turning waste into worth, showing the future of energy usage is efficient, intelligent, and, most importantly, achievable now.”

From chip to chiller: Driving innovation in decarbonization
To leverage excess heat – one of the largest untapped sources of energy and the largest potential for data centers across Europe, HPE has partnered up with Danfoss as their decarbonization partner. The strategic partnership takes advantage of Danfoss’ extensive product portfolio of energy-efficient solutions to drive innovation, support decarbonization and build the blueprint for the next generation of sustainable modular data centers.

HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery is inspired by how Danfoss is already using heat reuse technology at its own headquarters campus in Denmark. Here, the heat is recovered from Danfoss’ onsite data center, boosted by a heat pump, and re-used in surrounding buildings to provide space heating. The heat can also be fed into the local district heating network to provide a renewable heat source to local residents. Reusing heat is a major part of Danfoss’ own decarbonization strategy which has helped Danfoss achieve carbon neutrality in the energy system of its 250,000m2 campus in Nordborg in 2022.

The new scalable modular data center offering leverages Danfoss technologies, including Turbocor® compressors for heat pumps and chillers, heat exchangers, heat reuse modules, drives and pump skids allowing data centers to be cooled up to 30% more efficiently while recovering and reusing excess heat. It’s a modular solution with components that work together seamlessly and includes two technology stack options with a heat recovery system, including hydronic heat recovery heat exchanger and water-water heat pump, recovering heat from an air-cooled edge-to-cloud modular data center today and potentially second phase liquid cooled HPC modular data center.

Anju Mary Kuruvilla, Director- Industry Affairs, Communication & Sustainability- Danfoss India, said, “As we navigate the data-driven era, sustainability is crucial for India’s expanding data center industry,  which is expected to grow exponentially by 132% to ~10 billion USD by 2027. Danfoss  partnering with HPE as part of our holistic “Reduce, Reuse, Resource” approach will help inspire more green data centers in the nation, with circularity and decarbonization embedded in them.”

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