{"id":1043823,"date":"2026-10-16T07:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043823"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:26:17","slug":"indias-data-centre-capacity-may-surge-to-24-26-gw-impact-on-overall-power-demand-to-remain-limited-cea-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/indias-data-centre-capacity-may-surge-to-24-26-gw-impact-on-overall-power-demand-to-remain-limited-cea-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s data centre capacity may surge to 24-26 GW, impact on overall power demand to remain limited: CEA Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s data-centre capacity could surge to 24-26 GW from less than 2 GW currently, however, its share of overall electricity demand is likely to remain limited, said Central Electricity Authority (CEA) Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad, adding, the country&#8217;s renewable energy capacity is targeted to reach around 800 GW by 2035-36. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to on the sidelines of the &#8216;Making the Indian Power Sector AI Enabled&#8217; event, Prasad said the expected growth in data-centre capacity has already been factored into the country&#8217;s future power demand projections, with generation capacity being expanded accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s data-centre capacity could surge to 24-26 GW from less than 2 GW currently, however, its share of overall electricity demand is likely to remain limited, said Central Electricity Authority (CEA) Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad, adding, the country&#8217;s renewable energy capacity is targeted to reach around 800 GW by 2035-36. Speaking to on the sidelines of the &#8216;Making the Indian Power Sector AI Enabled&#8217; event, Prasad said the expected growth in data-centre capacity has already been factored into the country&#8217;s future power demand projections, with generation capacity being expanded accordingly.<\/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-1043823","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\/1043823","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=1043823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043843,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043823\/revisions\/1043843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}