Govt weighing dedicated grid, nuclear power for data centres
government is exploring the feasibility of providing dedicated, uninterrupted power to large data centre parks either through direct lines from power producers or by setting up small nuclear plants nearby, officials told ET.
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The need for uninterrupted power to be supplied through a separate source of power will be felt as more data centres with artificial intelligence (AI) servers and graphic processing units (GPUs) will be set up across India, a senior government official said.
“That, in turn, means that both the quality of power being supplied and the uninterrupted…supply will have to be maintained at the highest standards. With AI servers and now GPUs coming into the picture, the demand will be a lot higher,” the official said.
One of the options is to allow these data centre parks to set up separate power grids, which will allow them to buy power from the power producer or some other power-surplus state instead of the state the infrastructure is domiciled in, another official said.
The electronics and information technology ministry had reached out to the power ministry to study the feasibility of this option.
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