{"id":1009499,"date":"2026-05-23T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009499"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:36:14","slug":"indias-data-centre-capacity-to-hit-6-5gw-by-2030-create-1-lakh-engineering-jobs-jitendra-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/indias-data-centre-capacity-to-hit-6-5gw-by-2030-create-1-lakh-engineering-jobs-jitendra-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s data centre capacity to hit 6.5GW by 2030, create 1 lakh engineering jobs: Jitendra Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s data centre capacity is projected to skyrocket from 1.5 gigawatts (GW) to nearly 6.5 GW by 2030. This massive infrastructure expansion is expected to generate approximately one lakh high-skilled jobs for engineers, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Delivering the keynote address at the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) annual leadership summit, Singh emphasised that these employment opportunities will span critical, next-generation domains. Engineers will find roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, advanced cooling technologies, smart grids, renewable energy integration, and sophisticated digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India\u2019s data centre capacity is projected to skyrocket from 1.5 gigawatts (GW) to nearly 6.5 GW by 2030. This massive infrastructure expansion is expected to generate approximately one lakh high-skilled jobs for engineers, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced on Friday. Delivering the keynote address at the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) annual leadership summit, Singh emphasised that these employment opportunities will span critical, next-generation domains. Engineers will find roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, advanced cooling technologies, smart grids, renewable energy integration, and sophisticated digital infrastructure.<\/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-1009499","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\/1009499","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=1009499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009523,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009499\/revisions\/1009523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}