New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- Data centres could account for up to 2% of India's total electricity consumption over the next decade, compared with around 0.5% currently, as the country expands its digital infrastructure, NITI Aayog Member Abhay Karandikar said on Wednesday.

Speaking to ANI on the sidelines of an event to release the Data Centre Set-Up Evaluation Framework Report, Karandikar said electricity demand would rise as data centres expand, but the country has a roadmap to meet the additional requirement.

"Currently, it is about 0.5 per cent of our total electricity consumption. In other countries like the US and Europe, it is much more than that, in the order of 2 to 5 per cent of the total electricity consumption," he said.

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