{"id":1032057,"date":"2026-08-31T07:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032057"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T02:28:12","slug":"ai-boom-puts-jamnagar-thane-under-water-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/ai-boom-puts-jamnagar-thane-under-water-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom puts Jamnagar, Thane under water stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Jamnagar and Thane have emerged among the world\u2019s locations most exposed to data centre-driven water stress, as the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure threatens to sharply increase cooling-water demand in regions already facing water constraints, according to Rystad Energy. <\/p>\n<p>The pressure is expected to intensify over the next four years. Regions facing high or extremely high water stress are projected to account for 34% of the data centre sector\u2019s global direct water consumption by 2030. However, mandating the least water-intensive cooling technologies in such locations could reduce consumption by as much as 45%, Rystad said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Jamnagar and Thane have emerged among the world\u2019s locations most exposed to data centre-driven water stress, as the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure threatens to sharply increase cooling-water demand in regions already facing water constraints, according to Rystad Energy. The pressure is expected to intensify over the next four years. Regions facing high or extremely high water stress are projected to account for 34% of the data centre sector\u2019s global direct water consumption by 2030. However, mandating the least water-intensive cooling technologies in such locations could reduce consumption by as much as 45%, Rystad said.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032057","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=1032057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032084,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032057\/revisions\/1032084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}