Google AI project protests India

    by Giantkebab: Google

    🇮🇳 | Google's megaproject on artificial intelligence in India faces protests due to its environmental impact. Protesters question the water consumption of its data centers and warn about its possible effects on local communities. #Google #India

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    The I personally feel water shortage is something no government can survive wherever it is. Civilizations have vanished water shortage. So I don't know why these people are doing this without even looking. I personally feel that there is a complete water audit by an independent agency Like Western countries can afford all this. A country like India with mass unemployment problem cannot afford these things. We need mass employment. We need laborious industries. I mean, high-labor industries, not high-capital industries. So, this lakhs and lakhs of crores, 2 lakhs and odd crores for this 2500 megawatts, you are giving it to Google, which earns about trillions of dollars of profits. And Adani is a group also earns profits. They're giving them benefits. All these subsidies, money. And whose money is that? It's our taxes. It's all from our tax money. And then poor Dalits are deprived of land, poor Adivasis got the hit. All this land. So what do we get out of that?