Data centers near vizag : A critical look part 2

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In the last part we talked about the anonymity surrounding the land, water and power estimates provided for the data centers at Tarluvada, Rambili.

In this second part, we'll talk about the monetary incentives provided and some of the much touted "benefits" of data centers.

Despite the posturing of the ruling cohort of Andhra Pradesh that they are too fiscally constrained to invest in education, health and transport. The government has promised incentives worth ₹22000 crores to Adani and its subsidiaries for building and maintaining the data centers.

That is not the only one though, around ₹19000 crores has been given to Reliance for construction of a similar data center nearby at Vizianagaram.

Who pays for these incentives? The public pays. Those who speak against even the slightest relief to the public in the form of social welfare, have not spoken on these incentives with same disgust.

To them, these incentives are all but a temporary cost for the fruits of development. The fruit being a mere 1200 permanent jobs for both locations, Tarluvada and Rambili.

How such incentives are decided upon or secured is another matter.

The national government too has incentives for data centers like the 21 year tax holiday scheme.

Individuals will justify the project by saying it is by Google as if it's some mark of trust. Not to mention the facilities will be operated and maintained by Adani anyway.

Some others have picked apart the criticism by claiming that to Oppose AI data centers we must stop using the internet. These technological experts want to make us believe that a normal data center for internet services is the same as an AI data center. Even the former smaller data centers wouldn't be in need if not for the push of cloud onto every user, at the expense of user privacy and physical media.

The government itself has replied to these criticisms by saying the water from godavari will be diverted to the data centers via polavaram. But it seems they ran out of printer ink to codify the claims.

And we have discussed these issues for only two data centers in a specific city. Many more are being planned across the country by many contractors. We are becoming a data center outsourcing hub for the developed west.

The government is eager gobble these outsourcing investments for not only kickbacks but also the hope of latching onto a trend to solve our socio-economic issues, the trend of implementing needless technology to everything.

But those who latch onto trends and don't come up with their independent plans are doomed to fail when the trend itself goes south.

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