Data Centres in India

Global investment bank Jefferies has published a report titled India’s New Industrial Revolution, said that space, semiconductors, data centres, electronics, solar manufacturing and aerospace sectors could drive the next phase of India’s economic growth.

An Indian company that writes brilliant software for a foreign platform gets paid well for the work. It almost never owns a slice of what that platform eventually becomes worth. This is the exact distinction Naoroji’s arithmetic always hinged on, not whether India earns money, but what kind of money it earns, and what kind slips past it entirely.

Water consumption numbers alone don’t give the full picture if nobody knows what data centre cooling system is behind them

The first major attempt to develop a comprehensive federal framework for the industry was the Draft National Data Centre Policy

Data centre cooling towers function by evaporating some of their water, which finally returns to Earth as rainfall

A data centre cooling tower is a larger version of the desert cooler that millions of Indian homes rely on each summer.

Giving data centres the same priority as highways, railroads, and electricity grids by designating them as important infrastructure was the most significant decision of the govt