Maharashtra CM inaugurates Yotta Data Centre

    Mumbai, Jul 7 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray on Tuesday virtually inaugurated "world's second
largest and Asia's largest" data centre facility Yotta Data
Centre, an official statement said here.
    The facility is located at Hiranandani Fortune City in
Panvel in neighbouring Raigad district.
    The data centre has come up over an area of
8.2 lakh sq ft, the statement said.
    Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar
Prasad, Maharashtra Industries Minister Subhash Desai and
Hiranandani Group Chairman Niranjan Hiranandani were present
on the occasion through an online platform, the chief
ministers office (CMO) tweeted.
    "This data centre will definitely help Maharashtra
considering the importance of data, the state government will
encourage data centres in the future too," the statement
quoted Thackeray as saying during the virtual inauguration.
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