{"id":1024786,"date":"2026-07-30T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024786"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:55:03","slug":"indias-electricity-demand-is-surging-how-ai-data-centers-and-dwindling-coal-are-testing-indias-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/indias-electricity-demand-is-surging-how-ai-data-centers-and-dwindling-coal-are-testing-indias-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s electricity demand is surging: How AI data centers and dwindling coal are testing India\u2019s power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IEA projects India\u2019s electricity demand will grow 7% this year and 6% next year as compared to just 1.6% in 2025,t. Furthermore, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Monday that artificial intelligence data centres alone will add 26.3 gigawatts (GW) to India\u2019s power demand by 2031-32. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, through July, we saw some key developments globally. How would these impact the growth of the renewable power sector in India?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IEA projects India\u2019s electricity demand will grow 7% this year and 6% next year as compared to just 1.6% in 2025,t. Furthermore, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Monday that artificial intelligence data centres alone will add 26.3 gigawatts (GW) to India\u2019s power demand by 2031-32. In fact, through July, we saw some key developments globally. How would these impact the growth of the renewable power sector in India?<\/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-1024786","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\/1024786","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=1024786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024816,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024786\/revisions\/1024816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}