Rising temperatures and water shortage made worse by AI data centersss

Google, Meta and Microsoft are planning to build large scale AI data centers across India. These data centers require lakhs if not crores of liters of water to keep them cool while you make studio Ghibli art or write responses to corporate emails. Not only do they require massive amounts of water, the water needs to be of drinking quality. In a country where the common people cannot get drinking water we are going to give it to AI data centers. These data centers also require 100s of Megawatts of energy as well. Because of these data centers the cost of electricity is passed down to the people living near it and not to mention the poor water quality in the region. The amount of energy they require cannot be realistically produced by renewable methods and when most cities in India are facing water shortages already these data centers will only make it worse. The government has postponed plans to retire ageing power plants and approved dozens of new coal-fired plants, in part to meet demand from data centres. Not to mention the contribution to global warming they will cause, currently the 98 of the world's 100 hottest cities are in India due to large scale deforestation and usage of fossil fuels. If you feel this summer is bad, it will only get worse if these data centers are built. Adani group has pitched in 100 billion dollars to build these centers on land forcefully taken from minorities. Google is working with the state government to acquire 480 acres of land across three locations. In Tarluvada, 200 acres earmarked for the project belong to Dalit families who said they are under pressure to sell to the government. They are planning to build data centers near Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Vizag and Mumbai in order to connect the under sea cables from the west coast to the east coast. Most of these cities already have a water crisis but no media outlet is talking about it.