New legal guidelines could assist India enhance knowledge centre capability: Intel

Last week, semiconductor big Intel signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Gurugram-based contract producer VVDN Technologies. The deal will see Intel provide its reference designs and chips to VVDN to domestically manufacture 5G radios for the telecom sector, related sensors for the manufacturing sector, cameras for good surveillance, and extra. This, in keeping with Santhosh Viswanathan, managing director, gross sales and advertising and marketing at Intel India, is an early signal of the potential that India holds within the enterprise phase for know-how suppliers equivalent to Intel.

“Building knowledge centre capability in India is a key facet of the enterprise enterprise that we’ve to begin occupied with. There are 800 million folks in India who’re on the web, and that is main to an enormous quantity of information being generated from all throughout the market. But, India nonetheless has lower than 2% of the world’s knowledge centre capability. This presents an enormous alternative,” said Viswanathan, who succeeded Prakash Mallya in January.

Demand for data centres is growing in India. According to a 27 September report by commercial real estate firm JLL India, increasing data usage in financial services, entertainment and retail domains, coupled with a rise in the number of cloud service providers, is expected to grow India’s realized data centre capacity to 1318MW (megawatt) by 2024.

According to Viswanathan, the growth of this capacity could be key to India playing a more vital business role for companies such as Intel — and the adoption of adequate policies in this regard could be key.

“Some of the legislative efforts, such as the Data Protection Bill, will help build a demand to localize the data. This creates a big opportunity for data centre growth, and for India to grow bigger than 2% of the world’s capacity,” he mentioned.

India withdrew the Data Protection Bill in August and is planning to give you a brand new legislation quickly. The new laws is anticipated to supply a holistic overview of regulating know-how utilization in India, together with how knowledge may very well be localized within the nation.

Viswanathan additionally mentioned that India already has the ‘mass’ of information, a key indicator for rising demand of the information centre sector. This places India at an advantageous place compared to different international locations with better knowledge centre capacities, however lesser knowledge density.

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