India's diesel order never names data centers — but it captures them anyway

India’s Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas notified the “Motor Spirit and High-Speed Diesel (Temporary Regulation of Supply through Retail Outlets) Order, 2026” on June 12, 2026. The order bars industrial, institutional, and commercial customers from buying fuel at retail outlets, forcing them onto dedicated consumer pumps. Retail outlets may now dispense diesel only into vehicle tanks or PESO-approved containers, capped at 200 litres per day per customer or vehicle. The measure is temporary, valid for up to 90 days, and reshapes diesel procurement economics for generator-dependent data-centre campuses that had leaned on retail top-ups.

• India notifies temporary diesel retail-supply order – the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas bars institutional and commercial buyers from retail outlets and caps retail diesel at 200 litres/day; the PIB release cites retail diesel running roughly ₹40/litre cheaper than bulk, enforcement falling to IOC, BPCL and HPCL.
• Visakhapatnam’s VMRDA submits revised Master Plan-2041 – VMRDA sent its revised draft to the Andhra Pradesh government on June 12, 2026 after reviewing 1,241 objections; APIIC’s 276.77-acre Madhurawada Integrated Data Center Park holds SEIAA environmental clearance granted December 24, 2024.
• Google commits $1.5 billion to its Jackson County, Alabama campus – the 2026-2027 expansion at the former coal-plant site includes a $2 million Energy Impact Fund with TVA and CAANEAL; Google says it funds 100% of its own power and infrastructure costs.
• Egypt and EU sign €690 million clean-energy grid package – a €600 million EIB Global loan plus up to €90 million in EU grants backs an EETC programme to integrate 22 GW of renewables by 2030, carried out 2027-2030.
• Latvia’s recovery and resilience plan amendment transmitted to Council – the European Commission’s COM(2026)291 annex sets a total estimated cost of EUR 1,969,244,522 across seven components, with a 60 MW BESS commissioning milestone for Q4 2025.
• Council reaches partial general approach on European Competitiveness Fund – the General Affairs Council on June 16, 2026 agreed an indicative 2028-2034 envelope across four windows, including Digital Leadership and Clean Transition, applicable from January 1, 2028.