Tech PIVI

India has milked its reputation of offering cheap IT labour for long but the reputation might be in danger tells us a study conducted by Cushman & Wakefield and Hurleypalmerflatt named ‘Data Centre Risk Index’ . The study evaluated “Data Centre Risk Index” i.e., the risks to global data centre facilities and international investment in business critical IT infrastructure. In the survey, India scored an unsurprising second position in the most risk ridden Data Centre location among top 30 countries, the last being Brazil. The centre of global outsourcing over the past few years may not look so attractive anymore! This may be due to India’s low score in “Ease of Business”, “Inflation”, “per capita GDP” and “Corporate Tax”. The recent power grid collapse only adds to such a low ranking of India in the study. Arvind Nandan, Executive Director, Consultancy, India, Cushman & Wakefield says, “India and key Asian economies remain preferred locations for DCs and have witnessed ...