Communities living next door from data center developments always know what the problem is. So how can researchers and civil society organizations help, and more importantly, understand what these communities really need?

In the second episode of our special series that documents global perspectives on data center activism, we focus on the context of India – a popular regional data center hub for Big Tech where AI is often framed as a public good, yet without a centralized data center policy that lets the door open for speculative overbuild of digital infrastructures without a clearly defined future.

With guest researchers Arpita Kanjilal from a Delhi-based nonprofit Digital Empowerment Foundation and Dona Mathew from Digital Futures Lab operating from the west coast of India, we trace how the specific context of communities matters and influences the potential for resistance.

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Where the Cloud Touches the Ground is a special podcast series under the podcast Paradigms, produced by Leitmotiv – an independent think-and-do tank working toward an alternative digital economy.

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