junior science refresher magazine
junior science refresher magazine This article was published in the month of October INFRASTRUCTURE STATUS TO DATA CENTRES The government has accorded infrastructure status to data centres with more than 5MW capacity of IT load. o Data centre is included in Harmonized Master List of Infrastructure sub-sectors. o Data centres capacity is measured in terms of power they consume which reflects on scale of server they are hosting in their facilities. o Earlier it was announced in budget speech 2022- 23. Significance of move: Helps data centre companies to get easier access to institutional credit at lower rates attract foreign investments etc. Also in 2020 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has released Draft Data Centre Policy. o It aims to make India a Global Data Centre hub promote investment in sector and facilitate state of art service delivery to citizens. Why focus on data centres? o Presently India has around 499 MW installed power capacity for Data Centres and is projected to grow to 1007 MW by 2023. o Data localisation norms make it crucial to set up a robust data centre infrastructure India. o This is necessary to protect Indias digital sovereignty in connected world. About Data Centre It is a dedicated secure space within a centralized location where computing and networking equipment is concentrated for purpose of collecting storing processing distributing or allowing access to large amounts of data. It provides Network infrastructure (connects servers etc. to end-user locations); Storage infrastructure (to store data); and Computing resources (provide processing memory etc. that drive applications) junior science refresher magazine subscription.

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