{"id":1043498,"date":"2026-10-15T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043498"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:34:08","slug":"indias-data-centre-policy-in-works-says-jitin-prasada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/indias-data-centre-policy-in-works-says-jitin-prasada\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s data centre policy in works, says Jitin Prasada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is rolling out a policy for data centres, Minister of State for electronics and information technology Jitin Prasada said on Wednesday, adding that India is a very fertile ground for hyperscale data centres. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In some countries, data centres are taking power used by consumers. So, what happens there, the consumers have to pay more for power. So, we don&#8217;t want to get into that. We want to ensure that we use technology&#8230;,&#8221; he said at the Central Electricity Authority&#8217;s brainstorming session on artificial intelligence in the power sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is rolling out a policy for data centres, Minister of State for electronics and information technology Jitin Prasada said on Wednesday, adding that India is a very fertile ground for hyperscale data centres. &#8220;In some countries, data centres are taking power used by consumers. So, what happens there, the consumers have to pay more for power. So, we don&#8217;t want to get into that. We want to ensure that we use technology&#8230;,&#8221; he said at the Central Electricity Authority&#8217;s brainstorming session on artificial intelligence in the power sector.<\/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-1043498","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\/1043498","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=1043498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043518,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043498\/revisions\/1043518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}