As gleaming data hubs rise across the state, residents struggle for drinking water and officials have no answers on how much these facilities consume

Karnataka’s drive to make Bengaluru the ‘destination of choice’ for data centres is colliding with a worsening water crisis, as new facilities rise in regions where borewells have already run dry and ...

As India races to power its AI revolution, massive data centres are being built in areas already struggling for water, raising fears that the country’s digital boom could deepen local water crises