India, July 11 -- A data centre is, at its core, just a building full of computers. Strip away the buzzwords and that's the whole idea: racks of servers, storage systems and networking equipment, housed in a facility built to keep them running around the clock.

These machines store data, run applications, and power everything from your UPI transactions to the AI chatbot you might be using right now. What makes a data center different from an ordinary office with some computers in it is the infrastructure wrapped around those servers, the cooling systems that stop them from overheating, the backup power that kicks in the moment the grid fails, and the physical security that keeps unauthorised people away from equipment holding sensitive...