At Mumbai Climate Week, Stephen Byrd says AI boom likely to add 2-3 bt of carbon emissions while helping cut them, flags power shortages in West from AI growth & calls for smarter grids.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
According to a report by Macquarie, India’s data centre market is estimated to double by 2027. India currently has 1.4 gigawatts of operational data centre capacity.
India will require a 6-fold increase in data centre capacity by 2029, involving investment of Rs 1.5 lakh crore. Maharashtra, TN & UP are offering policies to tap into this opportunity.
The capital will be used to finance two data centers in the cities of Chennai and Noida, with an aggregate capacity of 67 megawatts (MW), the company said in a statement.
Speaking at opening day of Cisco India Summit 2023, Cisco India chief Daisy Chittilapilly said India is its second largest research and development centre outside the US.
Hiranandani Group's Yotta Infrastructure Monday inaugurated the centre, 1st of 3 expected to come up in UP. Yotta will also be investing Rs 39,000 cr in the state over next 5-7 yrs.
The tweak, effective from 1 April, comes as India seeks to keep its data within its borders as well as stoke a boom in online payments, e-commerce and quantum computing.
Islamabad is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea —it can't say no to Trump’s plan to use Pakistani troops in the stabilisation force but it can't agree to commit either.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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