{"id":1043495,"date":"2026-10-15T08:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043495"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:34:03","slug":"data-centres-must-be-seen-as-strategic-infrastructure-niti-aayog-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/data-centres-must-be-seen-as-strategic-infrastructure-niti-aayog-report\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Data centres must be seen as strategic infrastructure&#8217;: Niti Aayog report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Data centres must be treated as strategic infrastructure rather than just investment projects, Niti Aayog said on Wednesday, urging states to adopt a structured approach to their development. <\/p>\n<p>In a report titled &#8216;Data Centre Evaluation Framework to Help States Plan for Sustainable Growth&#8217;, the Aayog said common standards, templates and guidance from the central government could support the sector&#8217;s growth across states. It called for a practical guide to enable data-centre growth while protecting local systems, securing measurable public value and maintaining clear accountability throughout the project lifecycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Data centres must be treated as strategic infrastructure rather than just investment projects, Niti Aayog said on Wednesday, urging states to adopt a structured approach to their development. In a report titled &#8216;Data Centre Evaluation Framework to Help States Plan for Sustainable Growth&#8217;, the Aayog said common standards, templates and guidance from the central government could support the sector&#8217;s growth across states. It called for a practical guide to enable data-centre growth while protecting local systems, securing measurable public value and maintaining clear accountability throughout the project lifecycle.<\/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-1043495","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\/1043495","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=1043495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043517,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043495\/revisions\/1043517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}