Technology Company AirTrunk To Invest Rs 3 lakh crore In India: PM Modi

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that Asia-Pacific and Middle East technology company AirTrunk will invest around Rs 3 lakh crore and develop 5 GW of data center capacity in India. After meeting with AirTrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda, the prime minister also said that this is among the largest proposed investments in the country’s digital infrastructure ecosystem.

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Such investments will strengthen India’s position as a global hub for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, while also creating employment opportunities, supporting local supply chains and accelerating innovation-led growth, Modi said.

“It is clear that the future of the world’s digital economy is increasingly taking shape in India,” he said.

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data center specialist creating a platform for cloud, content and large enterprise customers in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East (APME) region.

The company develops and operates data center campuses with industry-leading reliability, technology innovation, and energy and water efficiency.

Founded in 2015, AirTrunk built Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centers in 2017, then focused on rapid expansion and now operates a platform of hyperscale data centers across the APME region.