The world has never been evenly arranged. Borders, ideas, capital, opportunities have never ever been equally distributed. The language of global development has always attempted to soften this reality with polite abstractions such as “developing countries” or “emerging economies”, yet the deeper historical geography of inequality is best captured in one term: ‘Global South’. The […]
Inside a cavern cut into a Norwegian fjord, the air is so cold and so still that it feels suspended. The place once stored mining gear. Now it stores something far more volatile. Rows of processors glow in the dark, running day and night. They burn so hot that without the Arctic wind pressing against […]
OpenAI is partnering with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (Foxconn) to design and manufacture hardware for AI data centres, amid a grow need for AI infrastructure globally. Foxconn has separately announced a venture with Intrinsic to explore AI data centres. (Reuters) Foxconn will co-design and develop data centre server racks with OpenAI, and work to […]
Meta Platforms Inc. is said to partner Nasdaq-listed and India-focused Sify Technologies Ltd. to set up a 500 MW data centre in Visakhapatnam, as global technology firms descend on the east-coast city to tap into India’s insatiable appetite for AI compute. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms will also land its ambitious subsea cable project ‘Waterworth’ at […]
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has raised $1 billion from TPG for its AI data centre business called HyperVault, as part of its endeavour to become the world’s largest AI-led IT services company. For TCS, the AI data centre in India opens a new frontier. (Reuters) The San Francisco-based private equity firm and India’s largest IT […]
Real estate developer Anant Raj’s subsidiary, Anant Raj Cloud, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh government to develop new data center facilities and an IT park in the coastal state. Under the MoU, ARCPL will invest approximately ₹4,500 crore, to be executed in two phases, to build the infrastructure and […]
India’s total data centre (DC) capacity has surpassed 1.5 gigawatts (GW) for the first time, with Mumbai accounting for 53% of the operational stock, about 1,530 megawatts (MW) as of September 2025, according to a report by CBRE. The city’s dominance is attributed to its proximity to global internet exchange points and undersea cable landing […]
Google has launched a new research moonshot, called ‘Project Suncatcher’, to build AI data centres in space powered by the sun. Google, in partnership with satellite maker Planet Labs, plans to launch two prototype satellites by early 2027 to test the harware in orbit. (AI Image) The idea is to build a constellation of solar-powered […]
Reddit Inc. has sued Perplexity AI Inc. for “industrial-scale data laundering”, as AI firms increasingly scrape websites—often without permission—for original content to train their large language models. Data laundering is “cleaning up dirty data to make it look legal and trustworthy” (Representative Image/Unsplash) Three data-scraping companies—OxyLabs UAB, AWMProxy and SerpApi—have been illegally collecting Reddit data […]
Adani Enterprises Ltd., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Bharti Airtel Ltd. have come together to build India’s largest AI data centre in Visakhapatnam, as part of the Gemini creator’s $15-billion push into India’s AI landscape. Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani. (Bloomberg) Adani ConneX, the data-centre joint venture of Adani Group and US-based Edge ConneX, along with […]
