Every year, the same Indian cities make headlines twice over. In June, newspapers report bone-dry reservoirs and residents lining up behind water tankers. By August, the same streets are underwater, cars floating past flooded metro stations. Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai, and Delhi have all lived through this strange double crisis: too little water one season, too …
Every AI query has a physical footprint - and it is measured in something far more scarce than electricity The query you send to a chatbot seems like nothing. Not using any paper, fuel or obvious resources in any way. However, behind your query, deep inside some climate-controlled data centre full of buzzing computers, there's …
As India races to become a global AI hub, its data centres are quietly consuming water from some of the country’s most stressed aquifers. The environmental cost of India’s digital economy is a policy conversation we are overdue to have. Every time you stream a film on a Mumbai morning commute, every email you send …
India’s water crisis disproportionately burdens women, who spend millions of hours daily fetching water, reinforcing gender inequality. Despite massive CSR spending, corporate efforts largely ignore this social dimension and fail to reduce women’s time poverty. The Number Nobody Quotes in a Boardroom Two hundred and fifty million hours. Every single day. That is the collective …
