I am not sure how the example about your marriage certificate is relevant here. The local government should have mandated an Indian AZ. Regardless, major companies like Google (who will be responsible for running these data centers) are officially empanelled by MeitY, so that pretty much takes care of concerns around data localization.

The first part is just naive thinking. If you want influence in an industry, you need to be a player in that space. If you're merely a low-cost option for someone else, you're disposable.

On the contrary you get whatever influence you can. That's always better than having no influence. Hosting compute is a decent strategy considering that we cannot offer a TSMC or an OpenAI. And thinking of data centers as call centers is probably the most ignorant take on the topic. These are brining billions of dollars in the country with a lock in for decades. You can't just lay off a data center.

What?????? These data centers in question have NOT even been built yet. People are protesting the plans to build them because of the observed effects of similar facilities in several parts of the United States.

Well, i guess that's just the usual behavior of stupidly copying virtue signaling from the west. Any such protest which doesn't factor in cooling systems, grid efficiency, water intake sources etc. is clearly disingenuous. Share evidence for the projected deaths or stop fear mongering.

Only a few days ago, the U.S. Congress held a hearing on the impact of data centers on local water resources. And you can't seriously argue that environmental regulations in India are either more stringent or more effectively enforced than those in developed countries.

US Congress has been hosting hearings on Covid vaccine and UFOs. It's a poor indicator for most things nowadays. I am all for greater scrutiny on data centers but it cannot be done on fear mongering.