Revising its data centre coverage, the Uttar Pradesh authorities has determined to set up more centres of excellence with the assistance of academic establishments, trade associations or some other authorities/non-public establishments to give an impetus to analysis, entrepreneurship and start-up tradition within the state.
In accordance to an order dated April 13, 2023, the state authorities would bear 50 per cent of the price to construct a data centre. A government-empowered committee shall be authorised to take a choice on the difficulty.
The state authorities has revised the goal of attracting investments underneath the coverage from ₹20,000 crore to ₹30,000 crore. It proposes setting up at the very least eight ultra-modern non-public data centre parks in opposition to three earlier. The coverage additionally proposes to develop a data centre park up to a capability of ₹900 MW in opposition to 250 MW supplied within the earlier coverage. The data centre parks could also be sub-leased to data centre items and particular function automobiles with none fees.