A minor fire took place at an under-construction Adani Group data center in Noida during welding work at the site. The building in Noida Sector 62 broke out at around 11: 20 pm on Tuesday. Chief Fire Officer Pradeep Kumar Choubey said no person was injured in the incident and the fire was extinguished soon.
He said that some theromocol and plastic sheets caught fire during welding work. Choubey was quoted as saying by the news agency PTI, Some thermocol and plastic sheets caught fire during the welding work at the under-construction site of Adani ConneX Data Center in Sector 62. The fire service unit arrived at the spot and the blaze was extinguished. The Adani Group data center is expected to have a capacity of 100 MW of IT load. The data center will open with requests for service by the end of the year. The data center will be operated on 100 per cent renewable energy from Day 1 and is strategically located in proximity to the IT and data center ecosystem, as per the Adani ConneX website.
Along with Gurgaon, the Adani ConneX website states, Noida is one of many emerging IT hubs in the Delhi NCR region. Our facility is strategically located close to the IT and data center ecosystem. In February 2021, Adani Enterprises, the flagship arm of the Adani Group, and EdgeConneX, a leading global data center operator with 50 facilities in 30 markets around the world, announced the establishment of a 50: 50 joint venture. The JV will develop and operate data centers throughout India, leveraging the complementary expertise and capabilities of the two partners.
Adani Group said that to address the growing need for high quality and reliable IT infrastructure, both organisations are committed to investing significant capital into the joint venture over the next decade to build India's leading green data center platform.