Pranav Hotkar
Guwahati, India - February 14, 2026 - India has inaugurated a new government-focused digital infrastructure facility in the Northeast as Yotta Data Services commissioned the National Data Center – North East Region (NDC-NER), aimed at supporting e-governance, AI workloads, and localized cloud services.
The Tier III, IGBC Gold-rated facility, developed by Yotta for the National Informatics Centre (NIC), was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking the largest government data centre deployed in Assam to date.
Spread across a 4,000 sq. m. campus, the G+5 structure currently supports about 200 racks and a 2 MW IT load, with scalability built in for expansion. The total designed power capacity reaches 8 MW, positioning it as the largest data centre in India’s Northeast region.
Yotta said the facility was engineered for seismic resilience and challenging soil conditions, incorporating deep load-bearing piles, fire-rated external facades, and high-availability architecture to ensure uninterrupted operations for critical government workloads.
Sunil Gupta, co-founder, CEO and managing director of Yotta Data Services, said:
“Digital sovereignty is no longer optional; it is foundational to India’s economic, strategic, and technological future. The National Data Center for the Northeast is not just a facility; it is a sovereign digital backbone that ensures government data, citizen services, and future AI workloads are hosted securely within India’s borders.”
The data centre will support e-governance platforms, interdepartmental systems, and citizen-facing services across the Northeastern states, while also enabling analytics-heavy and AI-driven applications.
The project forms part of India’s broader strategy to localize sensitive public-sector data and expand digital infrastructure beyond major metro hubs. Yotta operates multiple hyperscale and edge data center campuses across locations, including Navi Mumbai, Greater Noida, and Gujarat, forming a nationwide sovereign cloud footprint.
With regional deployment of government compute capacity, policymakers expect improved latency, faster public service delivery, and stronger compliance with data localization requirements, all key pillars of India’s digital sovereignty push.
