{"id":1024449,"date":"2026-07-29T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024449"},"modified":"2026-07-29T09:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T04:04:55","slug":"3-stocks-powering-indias-ai-data-centre-boom-and-a-rs-57400-crore-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/3-stocks-powering-indias-ai-data-centre-boom-and-a-rs-57400-crore-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"3 stocks powering India\u2019s AI data centre boom\u2014and a Rs 57,400-crore opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s \u20b91 lakh crore wires and cables industry is finding an unexpected growth engine beyond power, real estate and industrial capex. As Artificial Intelligence adoption accelerates and cloud infrastructure expands, data centres are emerging as one of the next major demand drivers for specialised cables. <\/p>\n<p>According to Polycab, a cable manufacturer, every 1 megawatt (MW) of data centre capacity requires nearly \u20b93.5 crore worth of cables, creating a sizeable opportunity as new facilities come online. The segment alone could generate a \u20b957,400 crore incremental market over the next six to eight years at an incremental capacity of 16.4 GW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s \u20b91 lakh crore wires and cables industry is finding an unexpected growth engine beyond power, real estate and industrial capex. As Artificial Intelligence adoption accelerates and cloud infrastructure expands, data centres are emerging as one of the next major demand drivers for specialised cables. According to Polycab, a cable manufacturer, every 1 megawatt (MW) of data centre capacity requires nearly \u20b93.5 crore worth of cables, creating a sizeable opportunity as new facilities come online. The segment alone could generate a \u20b957,400 crore incremental market over the next six to eight years at an incremental capacity of 16.4 GW.<\/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-1024449","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\/1024449","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=1024449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024488,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024449\/revisions\/1024488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}