New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- Union minister for electronics and IT (MeitY) Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the recently passed Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill was crucial to preparing India for a new AI-driven industrial economy, arguing that nuclear power will be central to meeting the massive energy needs of future data centres. As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption expands, Vaishnaw said countries will need a large number of data centres that require round-the-clock, high-capacity power. The data centres that power AI are energy-intensive facilities that also consume large amounts of water for cooling. Vaishnaw argued that nuclear energy is best suited to meet these needs, as it ca...