{"id":968507,"date":"2025-10-21T08:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968507"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:54:01","slug":"data-is-the-new-oil-data-centres-new-refineries-ashwini-vaishnaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/data-is-the-new-oil-data-centres-new-refineries-ashwini-vaishnaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Data is the new oil, data centres new refineries: Ashwini Vaishnaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Underlining India&#8217;s ambitious digital transformation agenda, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Saturday described data as &#8220;the new oil&#8221; and data centres as &#8220;the new refineries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the &#8216;NDTV Word Summit&#8217; here, the minister emphasised the government&#8217;s vision of Aatmanirbharta, saying India aims to become self-sufficient in critical minerals and digital infrastructure in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must make sure that the talent in our country finds opportunities here rather than going out,&#8221; Vaishnaw told the gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Underlining India&#8217;s ambitious digital transformation agenda, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Saturday described data as &#8220;the new oil&#8221; and data centres as &#8220;the new refineries.&#8221; Speaking at the &#8216;NDTV Word Summit&#8217; here, the minister emphasised the government&#8217;s vision of Aatmanirbharta, saying India aims to become self-sufficient in critical minerals and digital infrastructure in the coming years. &#8220;We must make sure that the talent in our country finds opportunities here rather than going out,&#8221; Vaishnaw told the gathering.<\/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-968507","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\/968507","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=968507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}