To that end, providing data centre services is a market that has been left largely untapped in our nation, one that has tremendous potential for growth. As more and more data-driven companies, such as Uber, enter our local market, it will become increasingly important for such outfits to locally store large volumes of data important to their business. Given how lucrative and desirable the data centre market is — our local market itself is worth Tk10,000 crore at the moment — it is inevitable that foreign companies will try to fill this market gap eventually. The government needs to take the appropriate measures which can allow our local companies to build more data centres going forward. Bangladesh is at the dawn of a new era, an era where data, as a commodity, is of equal importance as money.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 24, 2017 18:11 UTC