{"id":1027600,"date":"2026-08-10T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027600"},"modified":"2026-08-10T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T03:28:44","slug":"indias-data-centre-capacity-surges-over-four-fold-a-1575-mw-backbone-for-ai-and-digital-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/indias-data-centre-capacity-surges-over-four-fold-a-1575-mw-backbone-for-ai-and-digital-india\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s data centre capacity surges over four-fold: A 1,575 MW backbone for \u2018AI and digital India\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a detailed written reply to the Lok Sabha, the Indian government said the country\u2019s data centre capacity has expanded more than four-fold, rising from approximately 375 MW in 2020 to nearly 1,575 MW at present. The sharp increase reflects the growing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing and other data-intensive digital applications. <\/p>\n<p>Data centres, which form a critical part of India\u2019s Digital India infrastructure, are being developed primarily by private companies, with investments coming from both domestic and international players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a detailed written reply to the Lok Sabha, the Indian government said the country\u2019s data centre capacity has expanded more than four-fold, rising from approximately 375 MW in 2020 to nearly 1,575 MW at present. The sharp increase reflects the growing demand for cloud services, artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing and other data-intensive digital applications. Data centres, which form a critical part of India\u2019s Digital India infrastructure, are being developed primarily by private companies, with investments coming from both domestic and international players.<\/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-1027600","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\/1027600","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=1027600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027661,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027600\/revisions\/1027661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}