Can India’s data center boom create enough jobs?

Officials hope facilities will create work in IT and manufacturing, but estimates vary India generates about 20% of the world's data but accounts only for 4% of global data center capacity, according to industry reports. Left: A Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) data center inside its office building in Bengaluru, pictured in May. Right: A worker at the construction site of a Google-Adani data center in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh, India, on Aug. 3. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters) BENGALURU — India's data center drive, backed by incentives worth billions of rupees for the likes of Google and Amazon, is not expected to directly create much employment — a key concern amid backlash over "jobless" growth.

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