State may explore policy reforms to support growth of data centre industry: Priyank

The Karnataka authorities whitethorn research definite argumentation reforms, if required, to enactment the maturation of information centre manufacture successful the State and besides to presumption Bengaluru arsenic a planetary information centre bub, hinted Priyank Kharge, IT-BT and Rural Development Minister, present connected Tuesday.

Speaking astatine ASSOCHAM’s 8th variation of Smart Datacenters & Cloud Infrastructure Conclave-2025, helium invited manufacture players to travel retired with circumstantial recommendations, and promised them the authorities would beryllium consenting to marque immoderate argumentation changes to marque Karnataka astir charismatic and make Bengaluru a hub for information centre infrastructure.

“Karnataka is the spot to beryllium for AI, analytics, information centres, cybersecurity, heavy tech and everything that’s sustainable and emerging,” helium said.

Mr. Kharge reiterated the State’s commitment to supporting innovative and sustainable enactment successful technology. “We volition besides follow industry-standard sustainability metrics — and, much importantly, spell beyond them,” helium told the capitalist community.

Karnataka’s absorption was to guarantee that information centres are beyond conscionable being compliant, helium said, adding, “This means we volition person infrastructure that is vigor secure, renewable vigor aligned and h2o secure. We volition aggressively trim c footprint and incorporated caller technologies specified arsenic liquid cooling, precocious thermal management, and different next-generation cooling solutions.”

ASSOCHAM PwC study

An ASSOCHAM-PwC cognition insubstantial that outlines Karnataka’s integer imaginativeness and roadmap to go India’s sustainable and strategical hub for next-generation information infrastructure was released astatine the summit.

The study connected “Heading Towards the Sustainable Data Hub Vision: Karnataka Leading the Way” says Karnataka with its robust integer ecosystem, precocious connectivity, and progressive policies, offers unparalleled opportunities for hyperscale information centres, unreality services, and AI-driven platforms.

Largest information centre

NTT, a $100-billion Japanese conglomerate that operates information centres globally, has opened its largest, 100 MW information centre installation successful Bengaluru.

Currently NTT has 150+ MW of AI-driven information centre capableness unrecorded globally, portion successful India it operates 22 unrecorded information centres, with respective much nether construction. It has 3 Bengaluru information centres astatine an concern of ₹1,700 crore and has committed an further ₹2,400 crore for the caller field astatine Devanahalli.