India's AI data center new empire on stolen land and scarce water
“We’d have been happy to give up land for a school or hospital, but we don’t understand how this project helps us, not when it’s taken our sole livelihood,” said Relli Ramakrishna, a displaced Dalit farmer in Tarluvada, Visakhapatnam, one of more than 50 families who lost land assigned to them by the government in the 1970s and have not received the promised compensation in full, the land or the job.
https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/ai-data-centres-india-regulations-environment/article71532615.ece
Gerry McGovern
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