Google faces backlash against India data center

Google began clearing farmland and forest in Visakhapatnam, India, to build a 15 billion dollar data center. Local residents and activists protested over water scarcity, high power demands, and low local employment. The conflict tests how policy makers and geographers weigh industrial tech expansion against resource limits.

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