Pi Data Center for Rs.600 crore in Mangalagiri

AP government has granted 10 acres to the Pi Data Centre Private Limited to set up Rs.600 crore state-of-the-art data centre at Mangalagiri to serve enterprise business across the country and abroad with co-location in addition to cloud service offerings.

“The Greenfield facility built over five lakh square feet will offer direct employment to 300 and indirect employment to 2,000 people. Also, it will be South India’s first tier-4 certified data centre,” says Kalyan Muppaneni, founder and chief executive officer of Pi Data Centre Private Limited.

The facility will be equipped with 5,000 server racks and each rack will handle 42 server units. Construction works will commence in two months and operations are likely to commence in April next year. “Data centre will meet the demand for quality data centre service to companies both in the country and abroad. It has attracted investors from United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Taiwan and will go for public issue by the end of 2018,” says Kalyan Muppaneni.