{"id":1030745,"date":"2026-08-24T08:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030745"},"modified":"2026-08-24T09:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T03:41:34","slug":"apdf-ai-data-centres-need-balanced-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/apdf-ai-data-centres-need-balanced-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"APDF: AI data centres need balanced approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Cautioning against reckless industrial expansion, T Lakshminarayana of the Andhra Pradesh Development Forum (APDF) has called on the state government to adopt a balanced approach toward proposed mega AI data centres. <\/p>\n<p>In a press statement on Saturday, he warned against sacrificing public resources, specifically water, electricity, and land, to boost corporate profits. <\/p>\n<p>Lakshminarayana emphasised that true progress must go beyond attracting foreign multi-nationals or inflating corporate bottom lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: Cautioning against reckless industrial expansion, T Lakshminarayana of the Andhra Pradesh Development Forum (APDF) has called on the state government to adopt a balanced approach toward proposed mega AI data centres. In a press statement on Saturday, he warned against sacrificing public resources, specifically water, electricity, and land, to boost corporate profits. Lakshminarayana emphasised that true progress must go beyond attracting foreign multi-nationals or inflating corporate bottom lines.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030745","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=1030745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030776,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030745\/revisions\/1030776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}