IBM announced on Monday that it will design and build two green data centres for Sistema Shyam Teleservices'' MTS in India. One data centre will be set-up in Gurgaon to serve as disaster recovery site and the other at Chennai as the main data centre.

IBM claims that the new data centres will help MTS achieve 20 percent power savings.

Additionally, IBM will also set-up a network operations centre to enable MTS monitor and manage the applications and network.