The brief
- Data centres face public pushback over power and water use
- Sustainability must be embedded in design and operations to support the global AI boom
- Data-centre power and sustainability needs affect Indian power companies and renewable-energy providers
- Centre orders captive coal plants to boost output and sell surplus power
- Centre orders captive coal plants to maximise output from October 1 amid rising power demand
- India orders 112 captive coal plants to run at full capacity from October 1
- As stocks fall at power plants, govt mulls imported coal blending
- Power ministry weighs mandatory imported coal blending as stocks dwindle