{"id":1006620,"date":"2026-05-04T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006620"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:37:23","slug":"indias-data-centre-capacity-likely-to-surge-nearly-six-fold-to-10-5-gw-by-fy31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/indias-data-centre-capacity-likely-to-surge-nearly-six-fold-to-10-5-gw-by-fy31\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s data centre capacity likely to surge nearly six\u2011fold to 10.5 GW by FY31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s data centre capacity is set to surge nearly six\u2011fold from 1.8 GW to about 10.5 GW by FY2031 as demand rises due to artificial intelligence adoption and data localisation policies, a new report has said. <\/p>\n<p>The report from investment bank Morgan Stanley said AI workloads alone could account for roughly 6.8 GW of the projected capacity and that rising demand for low\u2011latency processing, tighter localisation norms and increasing compute intensity are another major driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s data centre capacity is set to surge nearly six\u2011fold from 1.8 GW to about 10.5 GW by FY2031 as demand rises due to artificial intelligence adoption and data localisation policies, a new report has said. The report from investment bank Morgan Stanley said AI workloads alone could account for roughly 6.8 GW of the projected capacity and that rising demand for low\u2011latency processing, tighter localisation norms and increasing compute intensity are another major driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006650,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006620\/revisions\/1006650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}