Uttar Pradesh is showcasing its business-friendly policies to invite and attract investment to promote ‘Brand Uttar Pradesh’ at the prestigious World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos.
The state is highlighting its expanding industrial capabilities and immense investment potential.
UP delegation led by chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh met with William Marshall, CEO and Co-Founder of Planet Labs, at the Invest UP pavilion.
Planet Labs is a leading aerospace and data analytics company specialising in high-resolution Earth observation and geospatial solutions.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Planet Labs operates the world’s largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites, capturing daily images of the planet’s entire surface.
With a significant global footprint, Planet Labs provides geospatial intelligence and Earth observation data to clients across the world, supporting industries such as agriculture, forestry, energy, and urban development.
These incentives include priority access to land in IT parks, tax exemptions, streamlined approvals, collaborative partnerships, R&D support, and world-class logistics infrastructure.
In addition to Planet Labs, CtrlS Data Centres Ltd. is also exploring opportunities to establish data centers in Lucknow and Noida, UP.
Founded in 2007, CtrlS specialises in Tier-4 data centers, offering co-location, cloud, disaster recovery, and managed hosting services.
The company operates state-of-the-art facilities across India, ensuring 24/7 uptime, scalability, and innovation in data management. CtrlS is committed to sustainability with green-certified data centers supporting the growing digital infrastructure needs of enterprises.
The Yogi Adityanath government is providing various incentives under the UP Data Centre Policy 2021, including capital subsidies, interest subsidies, land subsidies, stamp duty and electricity duty exemptions, dual power grid supply, and transmission & wheeling charges exemptions.
Additionally, the company will benefit from local workforce training programs, improved logistics and transportation networks, and streamlined regulatory approvals for business expansion. This collaboration aims to enhance digital infrastructure, support smart city and e-governance initiatives, and promote sustainable, energy-efficient solutions in the state.