New Delhi, June 20 -- India has identified critical minerals supply as an important area for advancing energy cooperation with Uzbekistan, saying the country's rapidly expanding digital economy-including rising demand from artificial intelligence (AI), data centres and advanced computing-requires reliable and clean baseload power.

Baseload power refers to the minimum, continuous and stable electricity supply required round the clock to keep essential systems running.

The issue was discussed during the 14th session of the India-Uzbekistan Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation, co-chaired by commerce secretary Rajesh Agrawal and Uzbekistan's deputy minister of investment, industry and tr...