India's AI ambitions face a critical water challenge, with data centre expansion demanding significant resources.
While on-site cooling has drawn public scrutiny, the larger water footprint stems from power generation. Experts have urged a pivot towards renewable energy integration and mandatory transparency from AI providers to ensure sustainable growth and balance environmental goals with escalating compute needs.
If AI is to scale sustainably in India, policy must appropriately weigh both sides of the water equation: the upstream, and the largely opaque, onsite water burden.
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