Anuj Behal is an independent journalist based in South Asia. His reporting spans religion and human rights, labor injustice, and issues of diaspora and migration across the region.

August 12, 2026

Anuj Behal

P. Bangarama outside the house her family is constructing with compensation received after the acquisition of their farmland for Google’s proposed hyperscale data center in Tarluvada, Andhra Pradesh.

The Human Cost of Google’s AI Expansion

Google’s $15 billion AI data center in southern India is being hailed as triumph for India’s technological development. For the local Dalit farmers losing their land for the project, it is raising fears about the future of the region’s land and water.

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The Human Cost of Google’s AI Expansion