Vishal Tripathi

AI is powering the future. But what is powering AI? As India positions itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence and digital services, #DataCentres are expanding at an unprecedented pace. Yet behind every AI model, cloud platform, and digital service lies a fast-growing demand for electricity, land, and water. In partnership with @SYSTEMIQ_Ltd , our new study on India’s data centre growth unpacks a fundamental question: Can India scale its digital ambitions without locking in #carbon-intensive infrastructure? Launched today at the @OfficialINDIAai Impact Summit 2026, the study finds that while India is emerging as one of the world’s fastest-growing data centre markets, its long-term resilience hinges on the availability of land, energy, and water. Stakeholder insights reveal how strategic siting, power, cooling, and backup choices can secure the sustainable acceleration of #AI. The study recommends: 🔹 Proactive grid planning so new data centre clusters are matched with renewable energy capacity and transmission readiness. 🔹 Stronger renewable procurement pathways, including developing regulatory frameworks that allow BESS integration and monetising data centres as a flexible load. 🔹 Pilot water-efficient cooling technologies to reduce pressure on water systems. 🔹 Transparent reporting frameworks for energy, emissions, and resource use. 🔹 Incentives that reward green data centres, not just rapid expansion. 📘 Read Scaling India’s Data Centre Ecosystem: Stakeholder perspectives on infrastructure, energy, and resilience at ceew.in/publications/how-is-… ✍️ By @vishaltrip, Debanjan Bagui, Prateek Aggarwal, Lotte Straathof, Lara Rabinowitz, Daksh Jain, and Avantika Vashishtha @ajainme, @GhoshArunabha, @amitabhk87

#CEEWEvents | Powering India’s Future: Policy, Markets and Innovation for a Clean Grid ⚡ As India’s electricity demand surges, how can we ensure a secure, smart, and sustainable grid? Join us at our National Dialogue to explore policy shifts, market reforms, and innovations that can fast-track India’s clean energy transition. We'll explore: ✅ How states can lead India’s clean #EnergyTransition ✅ The path to unlocking investments in #CleanEnergy markets ✅ Innovations that empower consumers to access green energy on demand 📅 12 March 2025 ⏰ 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM IST 📍 Hotel Taj Mahal (Mansingh), New Delhi 🔗 Register now: forms.gle/tptebnpFF8KYFp5L6 Swipe to see our speakers 👇

Very important issue raised by the Honourable MP @BhimArmyChief on issue of teachers’ dignity and duplicated efforts on digital data filling in the name of efficiency and so on! Cc @roadscholarz @aashishg_ @sakie339 @karthik_econ @abhinavghosh_ @MartinHaus93

This is a dense, difficult and extremely important conversation. @ProfSteveKeen presents a deep historical forensic on the origins of 'energy blindness' in macroeconomic theory, starting with Adam Smith and going all the way to the present. In short, via a long series of missteps, the way our economics textbooks, professors, and advisors to leaders around the world explain 'productivity' (aka our 'wealth') is *wrong*. The implications are enormous - as our available (and affordable) energy supply - via machines (technology) - enable and constrain human futures. Steve recently did massive scholarship on this issue and read all the original papers from eg. 100 years ago. Without energy, our technology are sculptures and our "labor" are corpses. Thanks for continuing to push/dig/explain Steve... Full episode: youtu.be/lrMWSkzrMYg

On the heels of record heat in 2023, Leon Simons joins me to unpack research he worked on with James Hansen on the connection between aerosol emission reductions from fuel regulations changes and accelerated global heating: Full Episode➡️youtu.be/RPAnoSt6FnY @LeonSimons8

"To align current trends in oil and gas with the Paris Agreement using CCS would require annual investment of 3.5 trillion dollars. This year the total CCS investments were 5 billion (a good year for CCS). So investments would need to increase by a factor of 1000" "Pure fantasy"