{"id":1048048,"date":"2026-11-09T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T02:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048048"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:49:06","slug":"indias-data-centre-boom-faces-local-pushback-over-water-power-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/09\/indias-data-centre-boom-faces-local-pushback-over-water-power-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s data centre boom faces local pushback over water, power risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s data centre boom is beginning to run into a local resource test. As technology companies commit billions of dollars to build infrastructure for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, communities in proposed locations are questioning whether their cities have the resources to support these massive facilities. <\/p>\n<p>In Thane, residents have opposed a proposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) hyperscale data centre in Balkum, citing its proximity to residential complexes, schools and hospitals. Concerns range from water shortages and pressure on the power grid to noise from backup generators. In Visakhapatnam, citizen groups have questioned the proposed Google-Adani data centre project, flagging concerns over water availability, land use and environmental clearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s data centre boom is beginning to run into a local resource test. As technology companies commit billions of dollars to build infrastructure for cloud computing and artificial intelligence, communities in proposed locations are questioning whether their cities have the resources to support these massive facilities. In Thane, residents have opposed a proposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) hyperscale data centre in Balkum, citing its proximity to residential complexes, schools and hospitals. Concerns range from water shortages and pressure on the power grid to noise from backup generators. In Visakhapatnam, citizen groups have questioned the proposed Google-Adani data centre project, flagging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1048048","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\/1048048","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048069,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048048\/revisions\/1048069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}