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In Vayam’s reporting

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An empty, dusty telecom room with rows of beige CRT terminals on metal tables, grey equipment racks with coiled cables, and a single box on a side table glowing with a small blue light.
AI & Data Centers· History

Online before China? The 1995 boast, and the state decisions behind India's data centres

VSNL's Independence Day internet was not first in Asia. What it began was a chain of state choices, from STPI's earth stations to RBI's data rule, that private capital has filled ever since.

Itihas··7 min
Flooded paddy fields and a small grove of trees in the foreground; behind them a long grey boundary wall, a cleared red-earth hillside and two construction cranes, one blue, with a grey sea on the horizon under monsoon cloud.
AI & Data Centers· Profile

Visakhapatnam, the AI coast: who gave up the land under India's biggest compute bet

Subsea cables, cheap construction and a state in a hurry have made coastal Andhra the centre of India's AI build-out. The fields below Star Hill are where its costs are being argued.

Yatri··8 min
A sandy beach under a grey monsoon sky with a concrete channel and a row of short concrete markers running from the waterline to a small windowless concrete building behind a wall; wooden fishing boats rest on the sand and a blue marker post stands at the water's edge.
AI & Data Centers· Explainer

Why India's data centres live by the sea

Thirteen of India's eighteen international cables come ashore on one six-kilometre stretch of Mumbai. The compute followed the cables, and the next landings are on the east coast.

Yatri··6 min