NTT on Monday announced its first data centre campus in Calcutta with an investment potential of Rs 2,000 crore over multiple phases.

The company has taken a 7.5-acre land parcel at Silicon Valley Hub in New Town, Calcutta and plans to build three buildings with a cumulative area of 6 lakh square feet when fully built up. The first phase will have capacity of 9MW facility load and 6MW IT load and the entire project is expected to have an IT load of 25MW.

“First building is expected to go live in the next 12-15 months. We want to come to the market early. The next phases will depend upon the traction that we receive,” said Shekhar Sharma, CEO NTT Global Data Centres & Cloud Infrastructure India Private Limited.

“India at this point is a very important market for NTT and the growth here is unlike any other markets. In the next five years we see a lot of growth and investment opportunities in the country,” he said.

NTT is a major data center service provider in the country with a capacity of 230MW of operational load spread over 2.1 million square feet across 12 facilities in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi NCR and Chennai. The company is planning to add 280MW of operational load spread over 2.5 million square feet at different data centre campuses across the country over the next two years.

NTT in 2020 had announced a plan to invest $2 billion over a five-year period to scale up its data centre capacity in the country.

Energy and connectivity are critical inputs of data centre infrastructure and Debashis Sen, managing director Hidco, who was present at NTT’s inaugural event said that the state already has adequate quality power available and transmission and distribution infrastructure will be further strengthened over the next few years.

Moreover, for the benefit of those companies who had taken land in the Silicon Valley Hub, underground ducts are laid out and the state has engaged with telecom operators to provide optical fibre connectivity so that the companies can start their operations sooner.