Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has laid the foundation stone of unique identification authority of India's (UIDAI) datacentre at Manesar in Haryana. The datacentre is expected to be completed by June, 2014.
Along with the chief minister, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of UIDAI; Rao Inderjit Singh, member of parliament; and RS Sharma, director general & mission director, UIDAI were present at the event.
Sharma said that the facility will come up on five acres and will be a state-of-the-art, energy efficient, captive green data center as per global standards and guidelines. The datacenter would be equipped to provide 24X7 monitoring and operation support.
The datacentre will be reviewed by uptime institute, USA for a Tier III certification, while the Indian Green Building Council will review the facility for purpose of awarding a Gold Rating LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) for green building.
The average annual power usage effectiveness (PUE) of the data center is estimated to be less than 1.6, making it one of the most green and energy efficient datacenters in the country. Further to ensure utmost security, the datacentre is housed in a blast proof concrete structure adhering to the respective IS code and design as per seismic zone-IV compliance requirements.
To ensure uninterrupted operations of the datacenter, modular and scalable systems will be designed that would provide seamless integration to support future load expansion, even supporting 1.6 billion enrollments that are estimated by 2030. Also, the datacentre complex shall house a building to accommodate UIDAI biometric center of competence (UBCC) and national training facilities of UIDAI. This building is expected to be completed by October, 2014.
In the future, UIDAI will also look at the possibility of using renewable sources of energy such as solar energy.