India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing

Rest of World reports that India's data center boom is displacing local communities and leaving them with nothing. The story follows Osama Manzar, who founded the Digital Empowerment Foundation in 2002, when just one point two percent of Indians were online — a figure that has since climbed past seventy percent. But as the country's digital infrastructure grows, the people in its path are being left with nothing.

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