Reliance Jio to Build Rs 1,000 Crore Data Centre in West Bengal
Indian mobile network operator Reliance Jio Infocomm will be investing Rs 1,000 crore in a state-of-the-art greenfield data centre in Kolkata where a 100-acre IT hub will be launched. This will be the biggest tech hub in the state as stated by Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal.
She mentioned about this matter while speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the upcoming Bengal Silicon Valley technology hub. According to the sources, Reliance Jio has already put in the application to the state government regarding 40 acres of prime land on long-term lease. This has been done for setting up the proposed data centre at the upcoming tech hub in the city’s eastern fringes.
Tarun Jhunjhunwala, Jio’s eastern India head said, “The data centre project is a reaffirmatio...