{"id":997934,"date":"2026-03-13T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997934"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:47:50","slug":"karnataka-government-considering-sustainable-data-centre-policy-priyank-kharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/karnataka-government-considering-sustainable-data-centre-policy-priyank-kharge\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka government considering sustainable data centre policy: Priyank Kharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT\/BT Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday said the state government is considering a &#8220;sustainable data centre policy&#8221; amid concerns over significant environmental costs associated with their water and energy consumption. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question by Doddaballapur BJP MLA Dheeraj Muniraj during the Question Hour in the assembly, he said, &#8220;We have 32 private data centres functioning in the state. He (MLA) wants data centres from the government side. We already have a data centre policy, which is under review.&#8221; Calling the data centres as &#8220;necessary evil,&#8221; he said they are needed for AI, machine learning and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT\/BT Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday said the state government is considering a &#8220;sustainable data centre policy&#8221; amid concerns over significant environmental costs associated with their water and energy consumption. Responding to a question by Doddaballapur BJP MLA Dheeraj Muniraj during the Question Hour in the assembly, he said, &#8220;We have 32 private data centres functioning in the state. He (MLA) wants data centres from the government side. We already have a data centre policy, which is under review.&#8221; Calling the data centres as &#8220;necessary evil,&#8221; he said they are needed for AI, machine learning and emerging technologies.<\/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-997934","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\/997934","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=997934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}