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Power solutions provider Cummins India has said it is seeing a "good opportunity" in data centre business, which is witnessing a significant boom driven AI adoption and data localisation. A part of the US-based Cummins Inc, Cummins India Ltd is involved in the power generation, aftermarket, and export businesses with five manufacturing plants, assembly, and distribution facilities. "Data centres have been a part of our portfolio for a while. We do see growth in data centres coming in India so we have an important role to play," Shveta Arya, Managing Director, Cummins India Ltd told PTI during an interaction. These centres require 99.99 per cent uptime for customers and they have different levels of providing backup power, she said. "They have their own prime power electricity that comes to the grid or a substation then they use gensets for backup, which is very important for their operations to run at a 99.99 per cent uptime. So, we definitely see a play and an opportunity for us a
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said India is a preferred destination for data centres as the country has no dearth of electricity and its 500GW national grid can take care of surge in demand. During a press conference on energy sector, Goyal, former Power and New & Renewable Energy minister, said there is sufficient power capacity in the country. He said that the 500GW grid is one of the largest in the world. "...Europe does not have a national grid. Even the US does not have a national grid. But India has a national grid. So we are a preferred destination for data centres and as they are planning a growth in the years to come. There will be sufficient power available to make sure that we meet the need of our people, farmers, industry and commercial establishments including data centres and GCCs," Goyal said. This comes at a time when various tech giants including Google, Microsoft and AWS have evinced interest in investing in India. In October, Google announced that it ..