The technical giant Google (Alphabet Inc.) will set up a 1 GW data center and a power infrastructure in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The project invests $ 6 billion (about Rs 51,000 crore). This is Google’s first and largest investment so far in India. Reuters quoted government resources and said that $ 2 billion (about Rs 17,000 crore) will be spent on establishing renewable energy ability from the total investment in the project. These clean energy sources will supply electricity to this condition of the -ATDA Center. This data center will be the largest in terms of its capacity and investment not only in India, but also in Asia. This investment is part of Google’s strategy whereby the company also expands its data center portfolio in billions of dollars in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. In April, Alphabet announced that the company will invest about $ 75 billion (£ 6.37 Lakh Crore) in expanding the Global Data Center Network in 2025, despite economic uncertainties and US President Donald Trump’s global tariff policies. What is the storage capacity of 1 GW data center? Here, 1 GW (GW) reflects the power consumption of the data center, not direct storage capacity. The data center with 1 gigawatt power consumption is quite large. It is usually called the “Hyperscale” data center, such as the Server Farm of Google, Amazon or Microsoft. It contains thousands or millions of servers, each of which has the ability to store large amounts of data. Suppose such data centers have 50,000 servers and each server has an average of 10 Terabytes (TB) storage. Thus total storage = 50,000 × 10 TB = 500,000 TB. Now, 1 terabyte = 1,000 gigabytes (GB), ie 500,000 TB = 500,000 × 1 000 = 500 million GB. That is, about 500 crore gigabytes (500 million GB) data can be stored in such a data center. This figure can more or less depend on the design and purpose of the data center. In some cases, the storage capacity can range from 100 million GB to 1 billion GB (ie 100 crore to 1000 crore GB). Share this story -tags
Asia’s biggest data center is ready in India !! Google will invest Rs 51,000 crore, the storage capacity will be shaken
