{"id":973889,"date":"2025-11-14T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973889"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:13:34","slug":"inside-indias-30-billion-data-center-gold-rush-and-the-tycoons-set-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/14\/inside-indias-30-billion-data-center-gold-rush-and-the-tycoons-set-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside India\u2019s $30 billion data center \u201cgold rush\u201d\u2014and the tycoons set to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will data centers (DC) write the new chapter of India\u2019s digital landscape? Reports highlight that India\u2019s data centre industry is on the cusp of explosive growth, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with surging data consumption, cloud adoption, and strict data localisation norms. As per a report by Jefferies, India\u2019s total DC capacity is expected to rise fivefold to 8 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. However, the expansion will require colossal facility capital expenditure (capex) of $30 billion and could push data centre leasing revenues to $8 billion by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will data centers (DC) write the new chapter of India\u2019s digital landscape? Reports highlight that India\u2019s data centre industry is on the cusp of explosive growth, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI), along with surging data consumption, cloud adoption, and strict data localisation norms. As per a report by Jefferies, India\u2019s total DC capacity is expected to rise fivefold to 8 gigawatts (GW) by 2030. However, the expansion will require colossal facility capital expenditure (capex) of $30 billion and could push data centre leasing revenues to $8 billion by 2030.<\/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-973889","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\/973889","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=973889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}