{"id":1023927,"date":"2026-07-27T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023927"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:45:47","slug":"states-step-up-ai-data-centre-push-with-new-policies-project-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/states-step-up-ai-data-centre-push-with-new-policies-project-commitments\/","title":{"rendered":"States step up AI data centre push with new policies, project commitments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian states are intensifying efforts to attract artificial intelligence (AI) data centre investments, with a series of new policies and project announcements signalling that AI infrastructure development is expanding beyond the country&#8217;s established hubs. <\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have unveiled new data centre policies with a combined investment target of more than Rs 8 lakh crore, while Andhra Pradesh has announced fresh AI data centre projects around Visakhapatnam. Odisha has also entered the race after HCLTech announced plans to set up the state&#8217;s first AI data centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian states are intensifying efforts to attract artificial intelligence (AI) data centre investments, with a series of new policies and project announcements signalling that AI infrastructure development is expanding beyond the country&#8217;s established hubs. Over the past few weeks, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have unveiled new data centre policies with a combined investment target of more than Rs 8 lakh crore, while Andhra Pradesh has announced fresh AI data centre projects around Visakhapatnam. Odisha has also entered the race after HCLTech announced plans to set up the state&#8217;s first AI data centre.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023927","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=1023927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023986,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023927\/revisions\/1023986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}