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Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste. (restofworld.org)

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“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”

Microsoft is building a data center in Mekaguda, a village in the southern Indian state of Telangana, which is expected to start operations by 2025. About 70% of the construction has been completed.
Last month, the state government intervened after Microsoft cited problems with the local village council.
A group of local residents has filed a petition against Microsoft, claiming encroachment and the dumping of industrial waste in a nearby body of water. The court hearing for the petition is pending.

Addition: Why are E-Waste Strategies in Need for Sustainable Data Centers?

E-waste in data centers encompasses a wide array of discarded IT equipment such as servers, power distribution units, and other electronic components that are no longer in use. Despite the rapid pace of technological upgrades, the alarming statistic from the UN forecasts that e-waste volumes could reach 74.7 metric tons globally by 2030.

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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft is still who vetted and hired the contractor and who selected the location.

And yeah. Past CEOs of Microsoft have continued to be shitty. They're who's responsible for what's going on. I just wanted to talk about the ways white knight philanthropy doesn't help, it just perpetuates colonialism, and Bill Gates+Microsoft have always been in lock step in this regard.

The point is the true villain here is colonialism