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RBI opens second high-security data centre in Odisha
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The Reserve Bank of India has built a greenfield high-security data centre in Bhubaneswar, Odisha to host core systems for currency management, payment and settlement operations, and regulatory data functions.
Why it matters
The Bhubaneswar facility becomes RBI’s second data centre alongside its primary site in Kharghar (Navi Mumbai), expanding redundancy for central-bank computing that supports currency operations, payment/settlement rails, and regulatory data. By siting the centre away from western/northern border threat corridors and outside the highest seismic-risk zones, RBI is explicitly shifting its continuity posture toward lower exposure to cross-border strike scenarios and major earthquake disruption. This can alter outage and recovery planning dependencies for banks and payment systems that rely on RBI infrastructure for settlement finality and central-bank services. The build also sits alongside RBI’s stated 2025 pilot cloud initiative (Mumbai and Hyderabad), indicating parallel tracks for sovereign infrastructure capacity and service delivery models.
Implications
- • Higher redundancy for RBI-operated payment/settlement infrastructure
- • Lower exposure of RBI core systems to border-strike risk scenarios
- • Lower exposure of RBI core systems to highest seismic-risk zones
- • More distributed RBI infrastructure footprint for continuity planning
Who is affected
- • Banks participating in RBI-operated payment and settlement systems
- • Payment system operators and clearing entities dependent on RBI infrastructure
- • Financial institutions submitting regulatory data to RBI systems
- • RBI currency management and operations teams
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