film 01 · in production · streaming january 2027
The cloud has an address
Everything you have heard about data centres is a carefully told story. This is the version told by the land, the water and the people who live next to it.
the question
India wants to become home to the world's AI data centres, and Visakhapatnam is where that ambition is turning into concrete. The pitch is jobs, investment and digital progress. We want to know what it actually costs, and who pays.
what we are looking at
- people
The land acquired, the families who gave it up, and the jobs promised against the jobs that arrive.
- planet
How much power and water these sites need, and what that means for the region around them.
- profit
Who invests, who receives incentives, and who earns once the servers switch on.
- perception
What people are saying about data centres online, analysed post by post, against what the official story says.
on the ground
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Interviews with people living near the sites, and with experts in technology, energy and policy.
research focus
source: Natural Earth, India point of view boundaries
receipts
The full source list and our dataset will be published here on release.
partner this film
If your organisation works on land rights, energy, water or digital policy and wants this evidence seen widely, write to us at connect at unparroted dot com.