The 51% green-power mandate

The Data Centre Policy mandates that data centres source at least 51% of their electricity from green energy. That ties the data-centre story directly to the Dholera solar park, where 300 MW of a 1,000 MW Phase-I is commissioned against a 5,000 MW target. A 7.5 GW data-centre load is far larger than current on-site solar, so significant new renewable and grid capacity is required.

What this means for a data-centre operator

For an operator evaluating Dholera, the pull is a coherent stack: a state that has just made data centres a policy priority, a location named as its primary destination, a coastal site that can support seawater desalination for cooling, an adjacent solar park to help meet the green-power mandate, and the same plug-and-play trunk infrastructure and single-window approvals the rest of the SIR offers. The confirmed anchor, the L&T-Vyoma agreement, shows the intent is real rather than purely on paper. That combination is why Dholera is being talked about as a data-centre cluster and not just another industrial park.

The honest read: power and water

Two constraints deserve a clear eye, because they gate the ambition. Power: a multi-gigawatt data-centre load is far larger than the roughly 300 MW of solar commissioned on site today, so significant new renewable and grid capacity has to be built for the targets to hold. Water: cooling needs water, current desalination capacity is about 20 MLD sized for the Activation Area, and the larger 200 MLD seawater plant is at the consultant-appointment stage, not built. The policy pushes captive desalination precisely because officials have said the full requirement is still unknown. None of this makes Dholera a poor choice; it makes the pace of power and water build-out the thing to track before you commit a large load.

How this page is sourced

Everything on this site is held to one standard so you can trust it enough to act on. Every figure is tagged by where it comes from: green for government or official sources, amber for national or trade press, and red for broker or unverified claims, which we flag rather than repeat as fact. Every figure carries a date, because Dholera moves and a number that was right last year may not hold now. Anything framed as a future event, an opening, a first chip, a completion, stays labelled as a target until a government source confirms it happened. We do not sell plots, we do not publish invented reviews or registration numbers, and where a fact is not reliably available we say so instead of guessing. The full method and the primary sources are on the sources and methodology page.

Read the tags as a confidence meter. A green figure is something you can plan against today. An amber figure is credible but worth confirming before you build a decision on it. A red figure is a claim we are showing you so that you can recognise it, not one we stand behind. When two sources disagree, we say so and show the more authoritative one rather than averaging them into a number that is nobody's actual figure. The point of all of this is simple: you should be able to act on what you read here, and check any of it yourself, without wondering whether a number was quietly invented to make the picture look better than it is.

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