Data centre a billion-dollar opportunity in India, seeing positive traction: ABB India

Sanjeev Sharma, country head and managing director of ABB India, on Thursday, said that the data centre is a billion-dollar opportunity in India.

With India recovering from the second wave of COVID, the country's capital expenditure cycle has turned a corner. Economists and analysts now suggest there are evident signs of revival in capex, though a full-fledged return is still over a year away.

“Data centre is almost a billion-dollar kind of opportunity in the country at this point of time and it is going to grow rapidly as we go forward. The data centre has computers and servers essentially, but they need to be fed with a lot of power and that's exactly where we come in. So, all power infrastructure that goes into data centres, most of our customers who are using very large data centres, we see a lot of reliance from their side on our products and our portfolio. So, a core part of power supply that goes into data centres comes from us,” Sharma said, in an interview to CNBC-TV18.