Microsoft put 20.5 billion dollars into India. Its newest data centre needs no water.
India South Central in Hyderabad, its fourth cloud region in India, has gone live, Microsoft said.
It joins the company's regions in Pune, Chennai and Mumbai, and sits inside a 20.5 billion dollar commitment to the country.
The region has three availability zones. These separate sites keep working when one fails. It was also built for AI workloads from the start.
Microsoft says its "high-efficiency mechanical cooling delivers effectively zero water use for cooling". Water is the part of the data centre argument that reaches local politics fastest.
Early customers named by the company include Adani Group and Bajaj Finserv, along with HDFC Bank and PB Pay.
The company says it has given more than 10 million people in India AI skills, against a commitment of 20 million by 2030. It says 25% of those learners went past the introductory course.
Every figure here is the company's own. No independent measurement of the water claim has been published.
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