Three more substations in works to power 6 new data centres in Noida region

Lucknow: Six data centres coming up in the Noida region will be requiring around 600 MWs of electricity a day. This load is sufficient to power a city like Kanpur or Agra, or even several small towns together.

Little wonder then that the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to set up new power substations and lines worth ₹1,000 crore, under public-private partnership (PPP) to ensure uninterrupted power supply to these data centres.

“Since the cloud data centres consume much more electricity as they need to be operated round-the-clock without any interruption, we have to build three new transmission substations and lines to meet their electricity demand,” UP Transmission Power Corporation Ltd (UPPTCL) managing director P Guruprasad said when contacted. “The Cabinet approved a proposal in this regard only recently,” he added.