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Here's the link to the session: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZD3TkuTvLLg?t=2472&si=pQN5Txs1SNzQtxKL

A discussion has taken place regarding the Datacenter(s) in today's assembly session.

What I find to be valid points:

Jobs: As a small economy we definitely need the money from the Industries, that's how we grow. Now when discussing this aspect either knowingly or unknowingly people only consider direct jobs created ignoring the indirect opportunities.

Sovereign need: we definitely need the Datacenters to be in the country be it conventional or AI.

Numbers confirming this:

No of conventional data centres country capacity

~5500(US)(~50GW)

~2300(EU)(~20GW)

~450 (China)(~40GW)

~280(India) (~1.5GW)

No of AI data centres country capacity

~84(US)(~10-15GW)

~90(EU)(~2GW)

~7(China)(~1GW)

~11(India)(~0.5GW)

Claims:

The entire water supply needed for these datacenters is estimated to be 3 TMC when the datacenters are fully operational. Water would entirely supplied using dedicated pipelines from the portion assigned to Industrial usage from the polavaram project within 18 months.

This water allocation will not effect the urban needs and the irrigational needs of the region.

Power Load on the grid wouldn't be substantially different.

70% of the power supplied to be green energy.

What I didn't like:

At the later stages of the response, the IT minister claimed he visited various datacenters and they are very silent and doesn't have any vibrations etc... would have preferred scientific explanations.

What are you're thoughts?

Since there is little to no discussion about this topic. I would like the share the NDSA report on the Kaleshawaram project after its site review. It is a bit on the technical side but it is worth as it goes in depth about the project.

Full Disclosure, I am an Andhraite,I don't have any political gains through this post but the scale and the level of the project and my general interest towards infrastructure lead to this post.

Would like your perspective about this.

Link: https://ndsa.gov.in/ndsa-backend/web/sites/default/files/2026-03/Kaleshwaram\_Main%20Report.pdf

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3. Is reaching out to the creators the only method through which the studio can gain clients/ customers?

4. Does this have the potential to scale up as franchise model business?

Appreciate your answers and thoughts....

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