CtrlS unveils upcoming Chennai hyperscale datacenter park

CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, Asia's largest Rated-4 datacenter operator, has unveiled their upcoming datacenter park in Chennai – their fifth hyperscale DC campus in India following Mumbai, Hyderabad, Noida and Bangalore.

CtrlS Datacenters will invest Rs 4,000 crore in the Chennai Datacenter Park, across phases. The company is expected to create about 500 direct jobs and over 9,000 indirect jobs.   

Located in the Ambattur industrial area, the campus will include two datacenter buildings with a combined built-up area of almost one million square feet, and 72 MW IT load capacity.

The first datacenter building (Chennai DC 1) is fully booked, and will begin operations in Q2 2024. The second datacenter building (Chennai DC 2) is slated to be launched in the second half of 2024 – and is presently accepting bookings. Chennai DC 2 is a Ground + 10 floor structure, with an IT load of 27 MW.

Speaking on the occasion, Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder & CEO, CtrlS Datacenters, stated, "We are delighted to unveil our upcoming Chennai DC Park. Chennai is the second largest datacenter 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.”