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from two substations providing power at 11 kilovolts each.

For uninterrupted power, it also has 30 minutes of IPS battery backup equipped with an AI-based modular cooling system.

Shahed Alam, chief corporate and regulatory officer of Robi Axiata, said they chose Jashore as the location for the data centre because of the low land rent and flexible facilities provided by the park.

Most importantly, Jashore is less prone to seismic activity and floods, guaranteeing minimal risk to operations even when hit by natural disasters, he said.

Robi is also pledging an “unparalleled uptime guarantee of 99.995 percent”, coupled with security measures of the highest grade, such as biometric access control and round-the-clock surveillance, safeguarding against physical and cyber threats.

“So, banks, financial institutions, and other organisations can confidently entrust their data to our data centre. Our facility ensures the utmost safety and protection for sensitive information,” Alam said.

The data centre was inaugurated by State Minister for Telecom and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Friday.

Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority Managing Director GSM Jafarullah, Robi CEO Rajeev Sethi and Axentec CEO Adil Hossain Noble were present.

Palak said Axentec and Robi’s initiative set a ground-breaking precedent for others to follow.

Private capital is increasingly being directed towards the establishment of data centres in Bangladesh to meet the escalating need for storing, processing and managing data.

Domestic investors are actively involved in establishing these centres while foreign investment is also flowing into the sector.

Overall, private, public, and international entities have already invested or are in the process of investing more than Tk 5,200 crore, with half of this amount originating from sources overseas.