Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is reportedly considering setting up its inaugural data center in India at the Reliance Industries campus in Chennai. Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder of Meta, attended the pre-wedding function of Anant Ambani held in Jamnagar in March. That’s why he signed an agreement with Reliance regarding this. The data center will help Meta process user-generated content locally on its apps like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Nevertheless, there has been no official statement released yet regarding the deal.
Meta will have the capability to operate four to five nodes through this campus
Through this campus, Meta will now have the capacity to operate four to five nodes at multiple locations across the country, facilitating faster data processing in India. Currently, the data of Indian users is routed to Meta’s data center in Singapore. According to experts in this matter, with Meta Local Data Center, apart from content, local ads will also improve the experience of users. Apart from this, this will reduce the costing of global data centers.
This campus is spread over 10 acres:- The 10-acre campus located in Chennai’s Ambattur Industrial Estate is a collaborative effort involving Brookfield Asset Management, Reliance Industries, and Digital Realty. It possesses the capability to accommodate up to a 100-megawatt (MW) IT load capacity.
Mark Zuckerberg came to India in March:- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was present at the pre-wedding celebration of businessman Mukesh Ambani’s younger son, Anant Ambani, and Radhika Merchant. This event occurred in Jamnagar, Gujarat from the 1st to the 3rd of March. Several other prominent figures, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and owner of the Adani Group, Gautam Adani, also attended this event.
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What are data centers?
A data center is a large group of computer servers connected by a network. It is utilized by corporations to store and manage vast volumes of data. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, as well as activities in banking, retail, healthcare, tourism, and other sectors, generate substantial data, necessitating the establishment of data centers for storage.
These facilities include data storage, processing and transmission of information, and functions related to the company’s applications. It can be considered like a server from where the entire IT of a company operates. In the digital era, social networking companies store all their users’ data and information in their own data centers. There are thousands of servers in these data centers.
