Power, not compute, could determine where India’s next AI data centres are built
Power availability may become the primary limiting factor for the expansion of AI data centres in India.
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Power availability may become the primary limiting factor for the expansion of AI data centres in India.
The Pentagon is investigating suspected cyberattacks that caused freezer failures at US military base stores.
Industry leaders emphasize that India's tech growth depends on scaling reliable power and water infrastructure alongside AI development.
The European Union plans to build the first subsea internet cable directly connecting Europe to Greenland, with potential extension to Canada and Asia.
GitHub announced plans to add four million CPU cores and 160 petabytes of storage to address infrastructure strain from a five-fold surge in code commits driven by AI agent activity.
xAI is offering to purchase homes in a Mississippi neighborhood near its data center on the condition that residents forgo litigation over noise concerns.
Texas communities are increasingly opposing data center developments, with cities like San Marcos banning them and local officials facing recall attempts over the projects.
OpenAI's 1.2 billion weekly active users require sophisticated Identity and Access Management infrastructure; the company uses Ory's decoupled authentication engine to handle authentication at extreme scale.
A US government-commissioned report warns that Chinese research activities near Pacific undersea cables pose sabotage risks to major tech companies like Google and Meta.
Indian IT companies are positioned to capitalize on enterprise AI adoption as rising infrastructure costs and funding demands create market opportunities, according to an Anand Rathi research report.
A deep examination of how Kubernetes control planes can fail at scale when individual components amplify faults through shared metadata and synchronized operations, even without crashing.
Legacy file infrastructure like NAS can become productivity bottlenecks when organizations adopt remote and distributed teams, forcing workarounds that complicate data management.
Research on 1,584 data centers shows they generate modest local job growth, creating 1,000–1,300 jobs per county on average but mostly in supporting industries rather than local retail.
An examination of sovereign AI that extends beyond data residency considerations to broader governance and infrastructure implications.
Vertiv India partners with Inflow Technologies to distribute its power, cooling, and IT infrastructure solutions across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Data center construction is becoming a major political issue in 2026, uniting voters across the spectrum against local expansion, while tech investors pour millions into campaigns.
The Puente Hills Mall in California, known as the Twin Pines Mall filming location from Back to the Future, may be redeveloped into a data center complex with 10 megawatts capacity.
Tata Communications plans to invest $400-450 million to build 10,000 km of AI-ready connectivity infrastructure across India over FY30-36.