Gujarat launches data centre policy, targets ₹6-lakh-crore investments, 7.5 GW capacity
Gujarat has announced its first Data Centre Policy for 2026–29 to attract large investments in digital infrastructure.
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The announcement matters for UPSC because data centres are now part of industrial policy, digital governance, power planning and water management. Their growth is linked to cloud computing, digital payments, e-commerce, electronics manufacturing and artificial intelligence (AI), all of which are core themes in the modern economy syllabus.
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UPSC may link this policy to India’s digital economy, energy-water trade-offs, and competitive federalism among states. The issue can be used to test how infrastructure policy, taxation incentives and sustainability constraints interact in high-tech manufacturing and services.
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