The Reserve Bank of India has opened a ₹169-crore data centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute at Info Valley-II in Jatni near Bhubaneswar, expanding the geographical resilience of the technology infrastructure supporting India’s financial system. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the facilities on 25 October in the presence of senior central and state government officials.
The data centre has received Tier IV accreditation from the Uptime Institute, the highest level under its facility-rating system. The certification is associated with fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of maintaining operations when individual equipment or distribution components fail. RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said the facility would operate independently of third-party cloud providers and improve the availability of critical services, including payment systems and government banking operations.
Geographical separation was an important factor in the choice of Bhubaneswar. The location is away from the RBI’s existing data-centre infrastructure in Maharashtra and lies in a different seismic zone, reducing the risk that a regional disruption could affect multiple operational sites simultaneously. Availability of technical talent in Odisha was also cited as a consideration.
The larger campus covers approximately 18.55 acres. Two-thirds of the land has been allocated to the Cybersecurity Training Institute, while the remaining portion accommodates the data-centre infrastructure. The institute will train RBI personnel, employees of regulated banks and staff from other financial-sector organisations. Its curriculum and research mandate will cover cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, big-data analytics, quantum technology and blockchain.
The RBI is positioning technology as a core operational function rather than a supporting service. India’s banking architecture now depends on continuous access to digital payment rails, settlement systems, regulatory platforms and government banking applications. The expansion therefore combines additional computing capacity with specialist training intended to improve the financial sector’s ability to prevent, identify and respond to technology-related disruptions.
The institute is also expected to undertake research into emerging technologies affecting the security and efficiency of financial systems. This creates a common capability-development centre for regulated institutions whose technology teams must manage AI-enabled fraud, increasingly automated attacks and complex dependencies across payments, cloud infrastructure and third-party service providers.
The inauguration comes amid growing regulatory attention to operational resilience and the security of digital financial infrastructure. The new campus provides the RBI with a geographically diversified facility for critical workloads while establishing a dedicated environment for financial-sector cybersecurity training and research.
