Hyderabad, Jan 21 (KNN) Tech giant, Microsoft to invest Rs 16,000 crore for setting up three data centres in Hyderabad. 

With the new announcement, the total number of data centres that Microsoft plans to set up in Hyderabad would go up to six, an official release said.

As per reports, the IT firm had already announced its first captive data centre investment of three campuses early in 2022 with an investment of Rs 16,000 crore.

The announce regarding the data centres was made at the sidelines of the World Trade Forum at Davos, Switzerland in the presence of Principal Secretary for IT and and Industries Jayesh Ranjan and Ahmed Mazhari, President, Asia, for Microsoft.

These centres form an integral part of Microsoft's goal of strengthening its cloud infrastructure to serve Azure's customers in India and worldwide. 

All the six data centres are estimated to be deployed phase-wise in the next 10-15 years, it added.

Telangana had earlier signed a MoU with Microsoft to enable several beneficial activities such as skilling, internship programmes and cloud adoption.

As part of Telangana's cloud adoption, the state is working with Microsoft Azure and others to ensure citizen services have the best of infrastructure as part of its tech stack.  (KNN Bureau)