Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: One of India’s largest data center service providers, Yotta Data Services, has entered Nepal by announcing a joint venture with BLC Holdings Ltd.
Mega Chaudhary of BLC Holdings and Sunil Gupta, CEO of Yotta Data Services, announced the partnership on the sidelines of the 2024 Nepal Investment Summit in Kathmandu on Sunday.
The total investment in the project is estimated at Rs 3.5 billion. The data center will be spread over 11 ropanis of land at Ramkot on the outskirts of Kathmandu.
The data center to be built in Nepal will have an IT load of 4 MW.
Yotta CEO Gupta said last year that the company was looking at expanding data centers in multiple locations such as the Middle East and South Asian countries like Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand, apart from neighbors like Nepal and Sri Lanka. “We will have data centers having a cumulative IT load of 1,000 MW by 2030,” Gupta said, launching a data center in Hooghly of West Bengal.
Codenamed ‘K1’, the data center in Nepal will be built in Tier 3 standard and will be Nepal’s first super cloud data center, according to Yotta and BLC.
