India's Reliance Industries said on Monday it would invest up to 10 billion Indian rupees ($122.24 million) in building data centres in the country along with Canada-based Brookfield Infrastructure.
Labourers rest in front of an advertisement for Reliance Industries at a construction site in Mumbai, India, March 2, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photosaid on Monday it would invest up to 10 billion Indian rupees in building data centres in the country along with Canada-based Brookfield Infrastructure.
The announcement comes at a time when data centre capacity in India is expected to rise exponentially as more people go online. Reliance will initially invest about 3.78 billion rupees in units of Mercury Holdings SG Pte, which is a joint venture between Brookfield Infrastructure and U.S.-based real estate investment trust Digital Realty.The Mukesh Ambani-owned company has committed to invest the remaining 6.22 billion rupees in equity and debt securities of the JV's units, when needed.
Reliance will hold a 33.33% stake in each of the Indian units of the JV and become an equal partner, it said, adding that the venture will be branded as Digital Connexion. India's data centres market is expected to grow 40% a year and draw $5 billion in investments by 2025 according to a report from investment bank Avendus Capital.
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