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Who pays the real cost of artificial intelligence? #Shorts

September 27, 2026
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What does a fence in a farming village have to do with the global race for artificial intelligence? In Tarluvada, in southern India, Google is planning a data center campus near Visakhapatnam, with an announced capacity of around one gigawatt. That means servers running nonstop, but also

What does a fence in a farming village have to do with the global race for artificial intelligence? In Tarluvada, in southern India, Google is planning a data center campus near Visakhapatnam, with an announced capacity of around one gigawatt. That means servers running nonstop, but also an uncomfortable question: who pays the cost of turning farmland into digital infrastructure? Several families say they lost access to land they had cultivated for decades and that promises of alternative land or employment have still not been fulfilled. The government denies forced land seizures and defends its compensation measures. The case offers a lesson: the cloud doesn’t float. Artificial intelligence needs land, electricity, and transparent decisions about who gets to keep their way of life.

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