State-owned Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL) has started work on the Indian Coast Guard’s data center in Mahipalpur, New Delhi.

In a deal valued at Rs 588 crore (US$70m), TCIL, Yotta Infrastructure, and Attero laid the foundation stone for the Indian Coast Guard’s first data center, as reported by ET Telecom.

The project, which will include a disaster recovery center, is expected to be completed in the next two years and will be built to Tier III standards.

It includes a five-year operational expenditure and a two-year hardware warranty. Other details have not been shared.

Sanjeev Kumar, chairman and managing director of TCIL, told the publication that the project will integrate an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, linking the Coast Guard’s 109 offices and 88 ships.

The companies first signed a deal for the data center and a disaster recovery center in December last year in an attempt to bolster India’s digital armed forces.

The Indian Coast Guard operates under India’s Ministry of Defense and is a maritime law enforcement agency. The Coast Guard works closely with the Indian Navy, the nation’s fisheries, Indian customs, and the armed forces.

Headquartered in New Delhi and established in 1978, TCIL is wholly owned by the Government of India and is under the administrative control of the Department of Telecommunications and the Ministry of Communications.

It was set up to provide telecom expertise across the country and now has a presence across India, Myanmar, Nepal, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and North Macedonia.

Indian data center firm Yotta Infrastructure is providing support on the project, alongside software firm Attero.

Yotta currently operates a 50MW campus in Mumbai, a campus in Noida, and has facilities under planning in Chennai, Delhi, Bengal, Gujarat, Pune, Powai, and Kolkata.