{"id":1034718,"date":"2026-09-12T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034718"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:04:40","slug":"ai-power-demand-data-localisation-the-twin-forces-behind-indias-data-center-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/ai-power-demand-data-localisation-the-twin-forces-behind-indias-data-center-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"AI power demand + data localisation: The twin forces behind India\u2019s data center boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s data center industry is exploding\u2014not just because of cloud computing or e-commerce, but increasingly due to artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and strict data localisation laws that require sensitive information to be stored and processed within the country, according to a Jefferies report. <\/p>\n<p>Colocation capacity has already surged fivefold over the past five years to reach around 2 gigawatts (GW), and analysts now project another 5x jump\u2014to nearly 10 GW by 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s data center industry is exploding\u2014not just because of cloud computing or e-commerce, but increasingly due to artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and strict data localisation laws that require sensitive information to be stored and processed within the country, according to a Jefferies report. Colocation capacity has already surged fivefold over the past five years to reach around 2 gigawatts (GW), and analysts now project another 5x jump\u2014to nearly 10 GW by 2031.<\/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-1034718","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\/1034718","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=1034718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034774,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034718\/revisions\/1034774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}