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Electricity & grid
What is the peak demand, who pays for new substations, and are live and announced loads clearly separated?
Independent public-interest project
India's data-centre footprint, mapped in the public interest.
Follow where large data centres are operating, being built or proposed—and what their demand for power, water and land can mean for nearby communities.
A community report is a lead, not automatically a verified fact. Every published marker should lead to a source.
28.61° N
77.20° E
Navi Mumbai
Visakhapatnam
Jamnagar
Chennai
Record / IN-SDC-011Google AI HubConstruction · primary source attached
Mapped records15
States represented7
Primary source links11
Last editorial check15 Jul 2026
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Large data-centre records across India
This conservative first release tracks campus or city-level records. It is not a security inventory and does not claim to be complete.
10Operationalpublic sources say live
1Under constructiongroundbreaking or building
4Announced / proposedannounced, permitted or planned
0Community submissionsprivate leads awaiting review
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Infrastructure benefits need measurable safeguards
These are investigation prompts, not claims that every facility creates every impact. Good records separate plans, permits, company disclosures and measured outcomes.
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Water & cooling
What is withdrawn, consumed and discharged—by source, season and cooling design—not merely replenished elsewhere?
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Diesel & air quality
How much backup generation is installed, how often is it tested or used, and what consent conditions apply?
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Land & ecology
What land changed use, what flood or heat risks exist, and which cumulative impacts appear in planning records?
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Noise
Cooling equipment, transformers and generators can create continuous or episodic sound that needs boundary monitoring.
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E-waste
Which entity holds producer responsibility, where hardware goes, and whether batteries are counted separately all matter.
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Jobs & public support
Compare promised and delivered jobs, incentives, public land, tax treatment and local infrastructure commitments.
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Public process
Track permits, consultation, source documents, corrections and the difference between an MoU and an approved project.
Labels before headlines
Three kinds of evidence. Never blended.
Capacity, status and impact language can look certain when it is not. Sunny Data Center Observatory keeps the source tier on the card so readers can see what a record actually proves.
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A permit, government record or named operator document with a date and a specific facility or phase.
Company-reported claim
Useful primary disclosure, labelled as self-reported and never upgraded to measured performance without evidence.
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Private by default, reviewed before publication and mapped approximately when identity or safety could be exposed.
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Why this exists
Following India's data-centre buildout, one community at a time.
India's expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure is taking shape city by city. Some data-centre projects move forward with broad support; others prompt questions about electricity, water, land, transparency and who benefits. This map brings the public record together so patterns of investment, local impact and uncertainty are easier to understand.
Through Sunny Data Center Observatory, I'm following that story alongside the people closest to it. Residents, researchers, journalists, officials and operators can contribute sources, challenge records and make overlooked details visible.
Meaningful progress can start with one documented fact, one correction or one local report—so let's start there.
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