India's $60 billion data-center bet, and the jobs it won't actually create
· 21 min · Episode 820
Episode India's $60 billion data-center bet, and the jobs it won't actually create
Every Indian state wants to be the country's data-centre capital.
Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra. They're all handing out land, power, decades of tax breaks, all chasing the same promise: jobs.
The Ken reporters Inderpal Singh and Mrunmayee Kulkarni ran the numbers on what the jobs actually cost. And the math does not hold up.
On this episode of Daybreak, we go inside what's causing the data-centre boom. Why these buildings are designed to need almost no one, what states are actually betting on, and if the data-centre industry will see the same ecosystem build out as other sectors in India.
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