Digital Connexion, a three-way joint venture between Brookfield Asset Management, Reliance Industries and Digital Realty on Friday launched its first data centre campus in Chennai to cater up to 100 megawatt (MW) critical IT load capacity.
The first phase of the data centre will offer 20MW of IT load and feature a modular infrastructure design enabling customers to scale their infrastructure in response to varied workload demands, accommodating anything from single cabinet needs to multi-megawatt requirements. It is located on a 10-acre campus in Chennai’s Ambattur Industrial Estate, an important industrial and manufacturing hub located close to the capital’s city centre, airport, and other major services.
It is equipped to support emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models. The facility also offers standardised configurations and ultrahigh-power densities (up to 70 kilowatts per rack) to meet the high-density power, suitable cooling infrastructure, and interconnectivity demands of AI workloads.
The resultant scale and quantum of data generated from the growth of knowledge-based industries in Tamil Nadu, with support from the state government, is expected to drive a demand surge for quality data center infrastructure in the city, said a company statement.
CB Velayuthan, CEO of Digital Connexion said, “We are excited about the launch of our first data centre in Chennai. This 100 MW campus in Ambattur is ideal, given the availability of the necessary power supply, high number of submarine cable landing stations in the local area, and the state government’s aspirations to make Chennai the top data centre hub in India.”
The data centre leverages Brookfield’s in-depth knowledge of the Indian infrastructure market, Digital Realty’s industry-leading energy-efficient data centre platform design and operating procedures, highly-repeatable pervasive data centre architecture approach and relationships with global customers, and Jio’s massive digital and connectivity ecosystem.