Hyderabad, Jan 12 : Ctrls Data Centres Today  announced deployment of Asia’s largest Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) in Mumbai, which is uniquely poised to be a game changer in the Indian data center industry.
The state-of-the-art GIS, is currently equipped with a whopping 300MW and can scale up to 700MW is being set up at the two million square feet CtrlS Datacenter Campus spread across 10 Data Centers, Hyderabad based- Data centres said in a release here.
The campus is currently under construction in Navi Mumbai of which four rated-4 data centers are operational.
CtrlS GIS facility has very limited sensitivity to environment, humidity, and will now help businesses collocate their high density IT infrastructure combined with seamless scalability to address their growth requirements.
The GIS deployed by CtrlS is one of the first large-scale deployments in Asia powered by 3 line configuration (N+N+1).
The power is sourced from express feeds which have seamless 24/7 supply and which will never go down.
CtrlS is equipped to deliver large capacities such as 100 MW of power to any customer in 15 to 18 months.
Gopalakrishnan, Managing Director, GBCI, Southeast Asia and Middle East, said, “CtrlS deploying a 300 MW gas insulated substation (GIS) is a path breaking phenomenon in the industry. This is the first of its kind deployment of power infrastructure by any data center company in the Asia Pacific region.
Combined with its planned addition of 2 million green data center footprint in Mumbai the company is now poised to address the needs of high-density racks.
Through this investment, CtrlS has again placed sustainability and efficiency at the core of its operations to provide its customers with world-class green data centers in India.
The Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) technology originally began in Japan in the 60’s, where there was a critical need to develop substations with a greatly reduced footprint.
In comparison, a conventional (AIS) or Air-Insulated Substation, occupies more space than GIS.
In the US, only about 2 to 5 percent of new substations are constructed as GIS. The Air insulated substation (AIS) leads to wastage of space, suffers from seismic instability and poor dielectric strength of air.
“The deployment of 300 MW gas insulated substation scalable to 700 MW is our commitment to the industry as we continue to address the growing needs of hyperscalers, telcos, BFSI, healthcare, gaming, and new age companies. We stay committed to adopting innovative approaches to serve the unmet needs of our customers, said, Sridhar Pinnnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CtrlS Datacenters.”
The company stays committed to delivering best-in-class solutions as it expand its hyperscale data center footprint to 6 million in the next 18 to 24 months across Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, besides enhancing its edge data center network in tier-2 and tier-3 cities in the country, the release added.(UNI)