Storing data in theme data directory

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According to the docs, I can store JSON and TOML files in a data folder in my theme. I can’t figure out how to access it though. If it was stored in the data directory in my project root, I could do something like {{ index .Site.Data.thedata ‘thevalue’ }}, but that’s not working.
current set up: themes/the-theme/data/the-data.json

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I hope the op found a solution yet.
Anyone ending here from a search, you need to mount the directory into the data folder.
Be sure to add the default mounts to still be able to use them.
https://gohugo.io/hugo-modules/configuration/#module-config-mounts

.toml example

[module]
# Default Mounts
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'content'
  target = 'content'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'static'
  target = 'static'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'layouts'
  target = 'layouts'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'data'
  target = 'data'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'assets'
  target = 'assets'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'i18n'
  target = 'i18n'
[[module.mounts]]
  source = 'archetypes'
  target = 'archetypes'

# Custom Mounts
[[module.mounts]]
  source = '\themes\<themename>\data'
  target = 'data'
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No, you do not.

The OP’s data file contained a hyphen, making it an invalid identifier. The naming requirements are documented here:
https://gohugo.io/templates/data-templates/#the-data-folder

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