AIRTEL TO PUMP IN ~5,000 CR FOR DATA CENTRE EXPANSION

Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced that its subsidiary Nxtra will invest ~5,000 crore by 2025 to scale up its data centre business. Nxtra By Airtel plans to build seven hyperscale data centres that will treble its capacities, attract business from neighbouring countries, and help India become a regional hub for data centres. Private equity firm Carlyle holds a 25 per cent stake in Nxtra Data.

Currently, Airtel has

10 large data centres and 120 small data centres with coverage in

70 cities.