Community: Who lives next to it?
The people, towns and water tables the industry runs through — and who pays. Every Vayam story is filed under one of four doors — Discovery, Community, Venture, Dialogue — so you can walk in through the question you already have.
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.
The grid before the plan: data centres are joining India's peak the costliest way
India's power demand set a record of 270.82 GW on 21 May. Data centres are a sliver of it today, are projected to grow 20-fold, and are being wired in as firm, doubled, peak-hour load.
Thirty jobs per 100 MW is America's number. India's is bigger, and still no Bhilai
Andhra Pradesh capped Google's Vizag incentives at ₹22,002 crore. The campuses' own filings list 1,725 permanent staff. Read the terms: the state is buying megawatts, not a township.
The building that drinks: India's data centres and the water nobody meters
India put its data centres in its thirstiest cities. After a 76% monsoon in the south, the industry's water bill is still a guess, and only one state has asked to see it.