The Cost Beneath the Cloud
A boomtown data center economy is rising across five Indian states with no cap on the water it draws or the coal it burns to stay cool. In Tusiana, a village of about two thousand people in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar district, the road suddenly changes. For a while, it is wide and newly paved, surrounded by high walls, barbed wire, and police barricades, with a substation humming behind the fence. This marks the edge of the Yotta Data Center Park, which Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath...
