{"id":989958,"date":"2026-02-05T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989958"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:50:02","slug":"beyond-tax-holidays-data-centres-seek-reliable-access-to-green-power-last-mile-connectivity-and-faster-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/beyond-tax-holidays-data-centres-seek-reliable-access-to-green-power-last-mile-connectivity-and-faster-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond tax holidays: Data centres seek reliable access to green power, last-mile connectivity and faster approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India generates nearly 20% of global data, but hosts only about 3% of the global data centre capacity (approximately 1.2-1.7 GW out of over 100 GW globally). It is estimated that 90% to 95% of data generated by Indians is stored or processed overseas. The tax holiday announced in Budget 2026 for foreign cloud service providers using Indian data centres is a timely and strategic intervention aimed at narrowing India\u2019s data infrastructure gap. It is also a strong signal that India wants to become a serious global data centre and AI computing hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India generates nearly 20% of global data, but hosts only about 3% of the global data centre capacity (approximately 1.2-1.7 GW out of over 100 GW globally). It is estimated that 90% to 95% of data generated by Indians is stored or processed overseas. The tax holiday announced in Budget 2026 for foreign cloud service providers using Indian data centres is a timely and strategic intervention aimed at narrowing India\u2019s data infrastructure gap. It is also a strong signal that India wants to become a serious global data centre and AI computing hub.<\/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-989958","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\/989958","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=989958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}