Bharti Airtel subsidiary Nxtra Data has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation for setting up two new data centre campuses in the state.

The new data center facilities will come up at Mumbai and Pune respectively.

Nxtra by Airtel offers data centre services to Indian and global enterprises, hyperscalers, start-ups, SMEs and governments.

Nxtra’s 10 large data centres and more than 120 edge data centres provides customers with co-location services, cloud infrastructure, managed hosting, data backup, disaster recovery, and remote infrastructure management.

The company already operates two large data centres in Maharashtra. It has multiple Edge data centres across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nagpur and Kolhapur.

Recently, The Caryle Group through its entities announced an investment of USD 235 mn for a 25 percent stake in Nxtra at a post money valuation of USD 1.2 billion. Nxtra Data will use the funds for scaling up its infrastructure and offerings.

Rajesh Tapadia, CEO – Nxtra Data said: “We are on a mission to support the growth of India’s digital ecosystem with highly secure data centre infrastructure.”