Is Digital India Sustainable?

Data centres are one of the largest contributors to global warming, contributing a similar amount to global greenhouse emissions as the aviation industry.

In this piece, Urvashi Aneja makes the case that this is an opportune moment to think ahead to a Digital India that is sustainable.

This involves considering the broader architecture of a sustainable digital society, one that avoids getting locked into unsustainable models of production and consumption, as is the case with many industrialised economies.