{"id":85622,"date":"2025-12-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/mena-india\/?p=85622"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:47:50","slug":"ai-to-drive-20-of-indias-incremental-power-demand-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/mena-india\/2025\/12\/24\/ai-to-drive-20-of-indias-incremental-power-demand-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to drive 20% of India\u2019s incremental power demand by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"> <strong>Artificial<\/strong><strong> intelligence-related workloads, including data centers, could account for about 20% of India\u2019s incremental electricity demand by 2030<\/strong> as digital services and compute usage scale up, according to an India Capital Management <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/indiacapital.com\/assets\/docs\/TheComingSurge.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">report (pdf)<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>(** Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links <\/strong>to our background as well as external sources.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>India\u2019s power demand is estimated to hit 817 terawatt-hours (TWh) by 2030<\/strong>, compared to an earlier forecast of 661 TWh, with around 156 TWh of the increase attributed to AI-related demand. The updated projection places India\u2019s incremental electricity demand 32% higher than the US and nearly three times that of the European Union over the same period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">Why it matters<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>For MENA investors<\/strong>, India\u2019s accelerating AI-led power demand marks the emergence of a large, policy-backed infrastructure investment cycle rather than a narrow technology shift. India\u2019s data center capacity is projected to expand nearly fivefold to about 8.12 GW by 2030, outpacing the roughly threefold growth expected in the US. Meeting this demand requires USD 450-500 bn financing through 2030, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>Gulf-based sovereign wealth funds and investors \u2014 including Adia, ADQ, PIF, QIA, and Mubadala<\/strong> \u2014 have poured bns into India\u2019s major energy producers, according to an Arab Gulf States Institute <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/agsi.org\/analysis\/gulf-sovereign-wealth-fund-investment-in-the-energy-transition\/\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;text-align:left\"><strong>Global technology firms are expanding capacity in India<\/strong> to support AI and cloud workloads, with Google, Amazon, and Microsoft committing a total of USD 67.5 bn over the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 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