Tripura government inks MoU with NIXI-CSC to set up international data centre

The government of Tripura has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with NIXI-CSC Data Services Centre to establish an international standard data centre.

National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and CSE e-governance services Limited, have floated a joint venture – NIXI-CSC Data Services Centre to set up the proposed Data Centre.

The Tripura state government has said that the joint venture company will invest Rs 1.50 billion for setting up the data centre while the state government will provide only space.

Under the MoU, the joint venture will allow the state government to host all its data in the proposed data centre and it will also provide data to the state free of cost. Further, the proposed data centre, once made operational, will generate a lot of jobs for the highly skilled IT professionals in the state.