{"id":1042363,"date":"2026-10-12T08:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042363"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:11:10","slug":"google-faces-backlash-against-india-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/12\/google-faces-backlash-against-india-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Google faces backlash against India data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handcuffs encircle Google&#8217;s logo on one campaign poster, while another warns that people &#8220;cannot drink data&#8221;, as opposition mounts to the tech giant&#8217;s planned AI mega-facility in India. <\/p>\n<p>Excavators have swung into action, clearing forest and farmland on the southeast coast for the $15 billion construction of Google&#8217;s largest data centre outside the United States. <\/p>\n<p>The project at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, a port often called Vizag, is championed by India as a cornerstone of its technological ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handcuffs encircle Google&#8217;s logo on one campaign poster, while another warns that people &#8220;cannot drink data&#8221;, as opposition mounts to the tech giant&#8217;s planned AI mega-facility in India. Excavators have swung into action, clearing forest and farmland on the southeast coast for the $15 billion construction of Google&#8217;s largest data centre outside the United States. The project at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state, a port often called Vizag, is championed by India as a cornerstone of its technological ambitions.<\/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-1042363","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\/1042363","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=1042363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042387,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042363\/revisions\/1042387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}