New Delhi, December 12 (IANS). Cloud data center capacity in India has reached approximately 1,280 megawatts (MW), mainly serving banks, power and other critical public sectors. The government informed Parliament on Friday that this capacity can increase by 4-5 times by 2030.
Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Jitin Prasad said in the Rajya Sabha that the number of data centers in India is continuously increasing and this is due to the rapidly increasing use of digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the government and private sectors and increasing demand for cloud services.
Global tech companies are investing heavily in AI and data center ecosystem in India. Google has announced to build a $15 billion AI hub in Visakhapatnam, which is the company’s largest investment in India. At the same time, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is setting up a data center worth $8.3 billion in Maharashtra.
The minister said India is building a secure, scalable and AI-enabled cloud infrastructure to promote digital governance, private sector collaboration and citizen empowerment.
He said that National Cloud Infrastructure has been created to meet the needs of the government, which has been established under the ‘Digital India’ scheme.
‘GI Cloud’, popularly known as Meghraj, provides a secure, scalable and innovative cloud service which is used to deliver e-governance services.
National Informatics Center (NIC) provides cloud services to various ministries and departments. So far, 2,170 ministries and departments have hosted their cloud-based services on ‘Meghraj’.
He also said that the National Data Center provides cloud services to government departments. Strict security arrangements have been made to protect these services, so that there is no threat of any kind to them.
— IANS
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