{"id":1020174,"date":"2026-07-11T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020174"},"modified":"2026-07-11T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:40:30","slug":"gujarats-big-bet-on-ai-data-centres-aims-for-rs-6-lakh-crore-investment-and-7-5-gw-capacity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/11\/gujarats-big-bet-on-ai-data-centres-aims-for-rs-6-lakh-crore-investment-and-7-5-gw-capacity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat\u2019s big bet on AI, Data Centres: Aims for Rs 6 lakh crore investment and 7.5 GW capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Gujarat on Thursday launched a comprehensive \u2018Data Centre Policy\u2018 designed to position the state as India\u2019s premier destination for hyperscale and colocation data centres, with a specific focus on supporting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and high\u2011performance computing. The policy sets ambitious targets \u2014 attracting an estimated Rs 6 lakh crore of investment and enabling 7.5 GW of data\u2011centre capacity \u2014 and couples those goals with a wide package of fiscal and non\u2011fiscal incentives, streamlined approvals and sustainability requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Gujarat on Thursday launched a comprehensive \u2018Data Centre Policy\u2018 designed to position the state as India\u2019s premier destination for hyperscale and colocation data centres, with a specific focus on supporting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and high\u2011performance computing. The policy sets ambitious targets \u2014 attracting an estimated Rs 6 lakh crore of investment and enabling 7.5 GW of data\u2011centre capacity \u2014 and couples those goals with a wide package of fiscal and non\u2011fiscal incentives, streamlined approvals and sustainability requirements.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020174","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=1020174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020199,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020174\/revisions\/1020199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}