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India's AI Boom Needs Guardrails, Not a Pause

On July 14, New York signed the country's first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centres, joining Massachusetts, Amsterdam, Singapore and Ireland in restricting unchecked expansion over energy and water strain. India, by contrast, is aggressively incentivising data-centre growth through state subsidy policies with little corresponding regulatory oversight, even as its own AI infrastructure buildout accelerates…