How Should India Power Its Data Centres?
A comprehensive analysis | India’s race to build data centres is reshaping the country’s power system, raising difficult questions about energy, water and public resources.
How the AI Data Centre Story is Shaping up in India
India is experiencing an unprecedented hyper-scale data centre (DC) and AI infrastructure boom.
While state policies aggressively incentivise investments (projecting capacity to cross multi-gigawatts by 2030), grassroots and digital friction is mounting. Local resistance (in Thane and Visakhapatnam) and digital conversations highlight immense pressure on local water tables, energy grids reliant on coal, and urban heat island effects.
This narrative insights study bridges macro-data (mainstream news and platforms) and micro-narrative analysis (Instagram/Reddit) to help climate communicators shift the discourse from reactive opposition to proactive, sustainable digital planning.
Breaking Down: Powering India’s AI Boom: What’s the True Cost?
A webinar that breaks down complex and important subjects through casual conversations with leading experts. In this episode, M Rajshekhar, author of CarbonCopy’s latest analysis, and Shreya Jai, Energy Lead at Climate Trends, for a deep dive into the complex relationship between AI, data centres and India’s electricity system. Drawing on months of research and conversations with industry leaders, policymakers and energy experts, this discussion will unpack the emerging trends, challenge common assumptions, and explore the policy choices that could shape India’s digital and energy future. Whether you work in climate, energy, technology, policy or infrastructure, this session will help you understand one of the most important and underreported questions of the AI era: How will India power its digital future?