Jitin Prasada

Jitin Prasada, India's junior minister for electronics and IT, told a Central Electricity Authority event in New Delhi on 14 October 2026 that the government is drafting a dedicated data-centre policy to keep power costs from landing on consumers. In some countries, he said, data centres were taking power from consumers, and "we don't want to get into that". He named neither a date nor the policy's scope.

Behind the promise sit the planner's forecasts: roughly 17 GW of data-centre demand by 2031-32 on the Central Electricity Authority's numbers, set against 1,575 MW installed as of August 2026. Gujarat's subsidised state policy, notified in August, aims at 7.5 GW on its own.

Prasada has been Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, and for Commerce and Industry, since June 2024. He won the Pilibhit seat in Uttar Pradesh for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that year. He spent two decades in the Indian National Congress, serving as a junior minister in four departments between 2008 and 2014, and joined the BJP in June 2021. He was then Uttar Pradesh's public works minister until 2024.