Modi wants India to power the AI age. Residents are pushing back.
Residents hold placards during a protest against Amazon's planned data center, in Thane, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, last month. | REUTERS
REUTERS
Oct 9, 2026
MUMBAI – The view from Indian engineer Tushar Shetty’s Mumbai apartment captures a tension playing out around the world as the artificial intelligence boom fuels an unprecedented data-center building spree.
What was once a stretch of lush greenery outside his 21st-floor window is now a scar of red earth where trees were felled to make way for an Amazon facility that forms part of the tech giant’s planned $21 billion investment in AI infrastructure in India by 2030.
“I would not have bought the house if I had known,” said the 46-year-old, lamenting a purchase made just five months ago.
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