Airtel’s Nxtra will deploy fuel cell technology to reduce carbon emissions from its data centers

New Delhi, Sep 12 : Bharti Airtel on Monday announced that its subsidiary Nxtra Data Limited has partnered with Bloom Energy to deploy low-impact fuel cell installation at its data center in Karnataka and reduce carbon emissions with a more sustainable hydrogen-ready fuel supply.

Our collaboration with Bloom Energy is a testimony to our energy strategy that is future-proof to provide more sustainable power to our data centers," Tapadia added.Nxtra plans to begin the unit with natural gas that isnt burned and change to 50 percent hydrogen in the future , without significant investment.

The natural gas-powered units will be used as primary generation with an electrical grid for utility use and generators to provide backup sources "Bloom Energys technology is capable of aiding India reach its decarbonisation goals as it moves towards a hydrogen-based economy." stated Tim Schweikert who is the senior managing director for international business developmentat Bloom Energy.

Nxtra by Airtel is the most extensive network of data centers in India with 12 big and 120 edge data centers across the country.The company will invest more than Rs.5 million over the next 4 years to increase capacity by 3x to more than 400 MW.vc/b.