Jharkhand
RBI Establishes High-Security Data Centre in Odisha
- 25 Feb 2026
- 2 min read
Why In News?
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has established a highly secure data centre in Odisha, strategically located away from high-risk zones such as potential enemy strike corridors and seismically active regions.
Key Points:
- Context: As India’s central bank, the RBI handles critical financial data, including payment systems, banking supervision records, currency management, and monetary policy operations.
- Increasing cyber threats, geopolitical risks, and natural disasters have necessitated the creation of resilient and geographically diversified data infrastructure.
- Strategic & Geological Significance: The site is located far from India's sensitive western and northern borders, significantly reducing vulnerability to cross-border missile or drone attacks.
- Low Seismic Risk: Unlike high-risk corridors like the Himalayan belt, this part of Odisha lies in a lower seismic risk zone, ensuring the continuity of core operations during major earthquakes.
- Insulation from Congestion: The location avoids the high density of subsea cables and data centres found in cities like Mumbai or Chennai, offering better strategic isolation.
- The Odisha facility is part of RBI’s broader strategy to ensure business continuity, disaster recovery, and national financial security
- Technical Capabilities:The facility has achieved the highest global standard for reliability, featuring fault-tolerant architecture and extensive redundancy to ensure near-zero downtime.
- Infrastructure Scope: Spread across an 18.55-acre campus at Info Valley-II in Khordha, it also houses the Enterprise Computing & Cybersecurity Training Institute to build future-ready research capacity.
- System Redundancy: This centre acts as a critical backup to the RBI's primary data centre in Navi Mumbai (Kharghar), strengthening India's overall disaster recovery framework.
