Bharti Airtel on Thursday said it will be investing Rs 5,000 crore to triple its data centre capacity by 2025.

The telco has unveiled a refreshed brand identity ‘Nxtra by Airtel’ for the data centre business.

The company will set up seven hyperscale campuses and increase the share of green power in running data centres to 50 per cent from the present 35 per cent.

“We are making a fresh investment of Rs 5,000 crore to expand our data centres. Some of the work has already started. As an organisation we are trying to build an ecosystem which will cover 70 more cities,’’ said Ajay Chitkara, director and CEO, Airtel Business.

The company is already operating 10 large data centres and 120 edge data centres (relatively smaller facilities) located close to target markets, covering 70 cities in the country.

Coupled with Airtel’s global network, it offers integrated solutions to large Indian enterprises, start-ups, SMEs and governments.

The company is setting up new data centres in Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Noida and Calcutta. Nxtra expects the Chennai data centre to go live by October, Mumbai in the next 18 months and Calcutta by 2024. Its largest data centre will come up in Pune.

On Calcutta, he said that it is one of the growth areas for Airtel and it also become a hub for neighbouring countries.

Chitkara pointed out that India is expected to become a hub of data centres in the next three years.