{"id":1029906,"date":"2026-08-20T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029906"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:16:00","slug":"deliberate-misinformation-on-vizag-data-centres-environmental-water-requirements-min-lokesh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/deliberate-misinformation-on-vizag-data-centres-environmental-water-requirements-min-lokesh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Deliberate misinformation on Vizag data centres&#8217; environmental, water requirements: Min Lokesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh on Wednesday defended the state government&#8217;s decision to establish data centres in Visakhapatnam, and said deliberate misinformation was being spread over their environmental and water requirements. <\/p>\n<p>Addressing the Assembly, the IT Minister said Google&#8217;s decision to invest in Visakhapatnam had triggered wider interest from other IT companies in the city. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deliberate misinformation was being spread over their (data centres) environmental and water requirements,&#8221; said Lokesh, replying to a question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh IT Minister Nara Lokesh on Wednesday defended the state government&#8217;s decision to establish data centres in Visakhapatnam, and said deliberate misinformation was being spread over their environmental and water requirements. Addressing the Assembly, the IT Minister said Google&#8217;s decision to invest in Visakhapatnam had triggered wider interest from other IT companies in the city. &#8220;Deliberate misinformation was being spread over their (data centres) environmental and water requirements,&#8221; said Lokesh, replying to a question.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029906","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=1029906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029934,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029906\/revisions\/1029934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}