Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said India could attract at least USD 200 billion in investments into the data centre sector. He also said data centres, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and manufacturing would drive India’s growth towards a USD 30 trillion economy by 2047
India has emerged as the top data centre market in the Asia-Pacific region outside China, with live IT capacity quadrupling to 1.7 GW in six years. BloombergNEF expects electricity demand from data centres to rise eightfold by 2035.