Discovery: How does it actually work?
The machine under the everyday thing — explained from the object in your hand outward. 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.
What is a megawatt of data centre? A field guide to MW, PUE, Tiers and GPU-hours
MeitY says India has about 1,575 MW of data centres. CBRE says it is heading for 2 GW. Both are right. Here is what every word in those headlines is actually counting.
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.
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.
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.
A fifth of the world's data, 2% of its data centres: checking India's favourite ratio
The ratio is in the Economic Survey and every industry deck. One half traces back to a sentence with no method. The other half depends on which denominator you pick.
Your ₹20 UPI payment is not allowed to leave India. That rule built buildings
Since April 2018 the RBI has required every payment record to be stored only in India. Follow one chai-stall QR scan and you find the anchor tenant of India's data-centre industry.
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.
A desk for the buildings with no windows
India's newest heavy industry has no chimney and no shift horn. It has land, power, water, subsidies and a cable landing. Why Vayam is opening a desk for it.
India Exports Weapons Now. Here’s Who’s Buying — and Why That Changes Everything
