India’s Data Boom Excludes Poor

New DelhiJust 1.2% of Indians were online in 2002.

Now over 70% are, yet AI data-centre growth still bypasses the same rural communities.

Digital Empowerment Foundation, founded by Osama Manzar in 2002, has tracked that gap for over two decades.

More reporting on communities displaced by data-centre land deals is expected across India’s states.

Sources: Rest of World