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Critically examine the environmental and economic consequences of India’s rise as a global data centre hub.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Industry

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India has become a fast-growing data centre market on three supports: data localisation (the Reserve Bank of India payment-data directive of 2018 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023), cheap submarine-cable landfall at Mumbai and Chennai, and low construction and power costs.

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  • The Orthodox Case
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  • Environmental Counter-Evidence
  • Economic Counter-Evidence
  • Judgement
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