New Delhi, March 7 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) unveiled its fourth data center in India Monday, bet on the rise in digital consumption in one of its fastest growing markets Microsoft India Head Anant Maheshwari stated that the company established long-term investments in the country, although it refused to confirm reports by local media of a price price of $ 2 billion for the last center.
“A public cloud data center is not a unique investment, it is a continuous investment we have,” said Maheshwari in Reuters. “In the last two years, we have doubled the capacity of the three existing data centers The general Indian public cloud services market is expected to reach $ 10.8 billion by 2025, according to the IDC research company.
The Government of India naked foreign technology companies to store more data locally, a gesture considered as the attempt at Delhi’s new attempt to obtain stricter monitoring of large big technology companies Maheshwari stated that Microsoft continues to develop its workforce in India of 18,000 people currently “through the pandemic and in the future”.
“We already serve more than 340,000 businesses in the country,” said Maheshwari The new data center is located in the southern state of Telangana of India The company’s business model, which is based on additional partners over its Cloud, Azure, a value of approximately $ 10 billion in the five Latest years, said Maheshwari The competitors join the race in India. The main rival Amazon announced at the end of 2020, it would spend $ 2.8 billion in building its second data center in the country, while the Adani Group announced last year to build six data center parks. Across the country.