With data centres being built across India, digital and clean energy revolution in the country must converge so that there may be more jobs, skills, and innovation, said Union Minister of State for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shripad Yesso Naik.
In New Delhi on Thursday to inaugurate the First Data Centre Summit on Carbon-Free Energy, the minister said 'carbon-free' data centres will not only create ‘green’ jobs, but also boost indigenous manufacturing of renewable energy and storage systems.
"Every new carbon-free data centre built in India will create green jobs, boost indigenous manufacturing of renewable and storage systems, and generate new business models for digital-energy convergence," Naik said at the event which had been organised by industry body, National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI), in partnership with Amazon.
India strongly believes that energy transition is not only about megawatts and gigawatts, but about jobs and innovation, Naik stressed.
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As per the NSEFI, carbon-free data centres are powered by or use renewable energy sources like solar and wind energies that are stored so that all their energy requirements may be met.
Deepak Gupta, the director general at NSEFI, informed that data centres can procure solar power directly from large farmers’ fields or get green attributes through decentralised agrivoltaic projects.
NSEFI is an umbrella organisation representing Renewable Energy (RE) companies that are active along the whole RE value chain, comprising leading international, national, and regional companies, including developers, manufacturers, EPC contractors, among others.
The event was attended by senior policymakers, renewable energy leaders, and data centre industry captains to chart the course for India's sustainable and carbon-neutral digital infrastructure.
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