Airtel arm Nxtra 1st data centre to deploy fuel-cell clean energy tech

Mumbai: Bharti Airtel has said its subsidiary Nxtra Data Ltd has partnered with Bloom Energy to deploy low environmental impact fuel cell installation at its data centre in Karnataka, reducing carbon emissions through a cleaner, hydrogen ready fuel supply.

Nxtra by Airtel has a network of data centers in India with 12 large and 120 edge data centers across the country and will invest over Rs 5000 crore over the next four years to expand its capacity by 3X to over 400 MW.

Nxtra will be the first data center company in India to deploy fuel cell technology to reduce carbon emissions at its data centers while unlocking cost and sustainability benefits.