The Human Rights Forum (HRF) took exception to the Andhra Pradesh government’s decision to enable the construction of massive Google-Adani Data Centre complexes in Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts with huge investments worth several billion dollars.
Visakhapatnam lies along a cyclone-prone and climate-sensitive coastline. The Madhurawada hills and adjoining lowlands already bear the scars of rampant real estate expansion that has stripped tree cover and disrupted natural drainage systems. Establishing a high-energy, heat-intensive complex of this magnitude in such a terrain is ecologically reckles
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