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AI & Data Centers· Profile
Jamnagar: why Reliance is building India's AI backbone next to its refinery
A quarter of India's refining capacity sits in one Reliance fence. Now the same site is promised 120 MW of AI compute by December, on solar power that has not yet arrived.
AI & Data Centers· Explainer
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.
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.
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