Green Visakha seeks cancellation of data centre permissions a day after rally

Green Visakha, an environmental non-governmental organisation, has called for the cancellation of all permissions for AI data centres in Visakhapatnam and Anakapalli districts, following a rally held on the first anniversary of the State government’s Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Google for an AI hub in Visakhapatnam. The rally, attended by around 200 people many of them in black, saw participants demanding a halt to construction at Tarluvada and Adavivaram and a white paper on the agreements.

Green Visakha also criticised the government for not following the “Data Centre Evaluation Framework to Help States Plan for Sustainable Growth”, and claimed that approvals given without an Environmental Impact Assessment and public hearing were not legally valid.

Brief written by urgent.news from The Hindu's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.