{"id":1037172,"date":"2026-09-21T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037172"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:10:44","slug":"from-blue-economy-to-ai-ktaka-announces-rs-1420-cr-twin-policies-to-drive-investment-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/from-blue-economy-to-ai-ktaka-announces-rs-1420-cr-twin-policies-to-drive-investment-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"From blue economy to AI: K\u2019taka announces Rs 1,420 cr twin policies to drive investment, jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka has put money at the centre of its next growth push, approving two five-year policies that together aim to attract investment and expand economic activity. The Marine Biotechnology Policy 2026\u20132031 targets lifting the state\u2019s \u201cBlue Bioeconomy\u201d from an estimated $2 billion today to $6\u20138 billion by 2031, with a proposed outlay of Rs 120 crore. <\/p>\n<p>On the digital side, the Sustainable Data Centre Policy 2026\u20132031 carries a much larger proposed outlay of Rs 1,300.45 crore and sets a 1 gigawatt (GW) cumulative IT load target by 2031, aiming for 10\u201312% of India\u2019s AI-ready data centre capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka has put money at the centre of its next growth push, approving two five-year policies that together aim to attract investment and expand economic activity. The Marine Biotechnology Policy 2026\u20132031 targets lifting the state\u2019s \u201cBlue Bioeconomy\u201d from an estimated $2 billion today to $6\u20138 billion by 2031, with a proposed outlay of Rs 120 crore. On the digital side, the Sustainable Data Centre Policy 2026\u20132031 carries a much larger proposed outlay of Rs 1,300.45 crore and sets a 1 gigawatt (GW) cumulative IT load target by 2031, aiming for 10\u201312% of India\u2019s AI-ready data centre capacity.<\/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-1037172","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\/1037172","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=1037172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037193,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037172\/revisions\/1037193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}