Karnataka planning sustainable data centre policy amid AI expansion, says KDEM CEO

India’s AI conversation usually swings between two extremes. One side talks about trillion-dollar opportunity. The other talks about job disruption. Rarely does anyone ask the less glamorous question: who is paying the environmental bill for all this computing power? At a closed-door media roundtable hosted by Avaali Solutions in Bengaluru, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, CEO of Karnataka Digital Economy Mission, attempted to pull the discussion back to the physical realities behind artificial intelligence.