{"id":1026892,"date":"2026-08-07T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026892"},"modified":"2026-08-07T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:07:57","slug":"googles-15-billion-india-data-centre-project-battles-water-wildlife-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/07\/googles-15-billion-india-data-centre-project-battles-water-wildlife-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s $15 billion India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VISAKHAPATNAM: Work to build Google&#8217;s planned Indian data centre hub is in full swing, with a hillside above \u200bthe site stripped to red earth and terraced into steps, \u200bbut mounting opposition from environmentalists is creating hurdles for the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s $15 billion project. <\/p>\n<p>The southern state of \u200bAndhra Pradesh, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has hailed the project as historic and transformational, has denied allegations that the project was fast-tracked without weighing risks to water supplies and wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISAKHAPATNAM: Work to build Google&#8217;s planned Indian data centre hub is in full swing, with a hillside above \u200bthe site stripped to red earth and terraced into steps, \u200bbut mounting opposition from environmentalists is creating hurdles for the U.S. tech giant&#8217;s $15 billion project. The southern state of \u200bAndhra Pradesh, governed by an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has hailed the project as historic and transformational, has denied allegations that the project was fast-tracked without weighing risks to water supplies and wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026909,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026892\/revisions\/1026909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}