印度正在推出数据中心政策，一位部长周三表示，政府希望防止消费者因数据中心行业的能源使用而支付更高的电费，因为该行业的能源使用正在全球范围内引起担忧。
India is rolling out a policy for data centres, a minister said on Wednesday, saying the government wants to keep consumers from paying more for electricity as the sector's power use draws concern worldwide.
此举是在孟买和维萨卡帕特南等城市的居民抗议亚马逊（AMZN.O）和谷歌（GOOGL.O）计划建设数据中心之后进行的，抗议内容包括对水和电力使用的担忧。印度目前没有针对该行业的专门政策，数据中心项目是在现有的环境和建筑规则下获批的，一些州也提供了各自的激励措施。
周三宣布该消息的 junior IT 部长吉廷·普拉萨达（Jitin Prasada）未详细说明该政策将涵盖哪些内容或何时公布。
By Sethuraman N R, Munsif Vengattil The move follows protests by residents in cities such as Mumbai and Visakhapatnam against data centres planned by Amazon (AMZN.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) over concerns including water and electricity use India does not have a dedicated policy for the sector, which is approved under existing environmental and building rules, with some states offering their own incentives Junior IT minister Jitin Prasada, who made the Wednesday announcement, did not elaborate on what the policy would cover or when it would be unveiled Data centres are central to the investment pitch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has invited "the whole world's data to reside in India"
数据中心是印度总理纳伦德拉·莫迪投资推销的核心内容，他曾邀请“全世界的数据都存放在印度”。
Modi's government sees the sector as a $200 billion opportunity "India is a very fertile ground for hyperscale data centres," Prasada said, speaking at a New Delhi event organised by the government body Central Electricity Authority He said data centres in some countries were taking power away from consumers, who then pay more for electricity, and "we don't want to get into that"
莫迪政府认为该行业是一个2000亿美元的机遇。“印度是超大规模数据中心的非常肥沃的土壤，”普拉萨达在由政府机构中央电力局组织的新德里活动上表示。他还说，一些国家的数据中心正在抢占消费者的电力，导致消费者为电力支付更多费用，“我们不想陷入这种情况”。
孟买郊外亚马逊项目附近的居民曾因电力和水资源紧张以及噪音问题进行抗议，环保人士表示，谷歌在维萨卡帕特南的150亿美元项目威胁到野生动物，并不当使用寺庙土地。谷歌和亚马逊均否认有任何不当行为，并表示这些担忧是毫无根据的，因为他们的设施采用了先进技术来最小化资源使用。
Residents near Amazon's site outside Mumbai have protested over strain on power and water and over noise, and environmentalists say Google's $15 billion Visakhapatnam project threatens wildlife and improperly uses temple land Google and Amazon have denied any wrongdoing and say the concerns are unfounded as their facilities use advanced technologies to minimise resource usage