Making data centres greener: Bureau of Energy Efficiency should come out with standards and labelling for it

Earlier this year, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech, proposed the development of a policy to enable private sector players to build data centre parks in India. This is not the first time that India has sought to regulate the establishment of data centres. Previously, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeITY) sought to establish data centres at the state level to further the National eGovernance Plan and released comprehensive guidelines to regulate the same.