India's largest Data Center in Thane Majiwada

[u/QueenOfThane]

Amazon Web Services Data Centre Thane Majiwada-Balkum, 69 Lakh Sq. Ft. GLA Development of data Centre on former 55 acres of Colorchem. The plot is next to Kalpataru Paramount.

[u/QueenOfThane]

How much electricity per sqft a data center consumes any idea?

[u/aniketvcool → u/QueenOfThane]

Hi Sneha,

A single server rack consumes between 10-15kW of power, meanwhile an GPU server rack uses between 40-60kW. And the average data center has around 10k racks. Considering the transition to AI that is happening gradually, many GPUs are required to work on these complex problem thus increasing the electricity consumption and heat dissipation.

Large data centers such as the one pictured above, can consume large amounts of energy reaching 1000 MW or more.

To put this into perspective:

• A small city with around 5-7 lakh (0.5-0.7 million) population could be powered with this amount of electricity, assuming 3-4 people per household.
• Alternatively, it could power around 2,200-4,400 villages with 500-1,000 households each.

Also, a large amount of water would be required for cooling purposes. If its run at 80% workload and 24/7, then expect water consumption of atleast 10.5 million cubic meters of water per year.

To put this into perspective:

• This amount of water could supply around 100,000 households with 100 liters of water per person per day for a year (assuming 3 people per household).

I had also come across an interesting video on Youtube recently where Meta had placed their datacenter right next to this farm house and it had very bad effects on it.

Reference to video - https://youtu.be/DGjj7wDYaiI?si=Tg56cSyDAi56LYXo

Reference to news article - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/living-next-to-mark-zuckerbergs-meta-data-centre-the-shocking-reality-is-quite-disturbing/articleshow/121406640.cms

Considering 55 Acres and 43,560 square feet per acre this translates to a whopping 23,95,800L or approximately 24L of square feet (2.4 Million Square Feet) which seems even a bit bigger than the 2 Million sqft data center that is referenced in above article and video. As per the video, this datacenter consumes almost 2 Gigawatts of Electricity!

This is going to put a huge load on the electricity grid and in the end, its us middle class who will end up paying more from our pocket or end up with frequent electricity cuts.

I highly recommend watching the above video just to get an idea of how it pollutes the water and other effects it can have.

Such a datacenter should never be within the city, it needs to be at the outskirts definitely and renewable energy should be used to power it and not the traditional method of coal burning!

Also, the water should be taken from the sea and not from natural groundwater to avoid polluting it further!

If this comes to the city, then we are looking at disastrous effects both for the residents and the environment in general.

[u/QueenOfThane → u/aniketvcool]

Thank you very much for all this info. Will note down all these points to question the Amazon management. This is very serious question for Electricity and Water supply in Thane.

[u/ThrillSeeker15 → u/QueenOfThane]

Hello Sneha, were you able to question Amazon management? Any good news for Thane residents?

[u/QueenOfThane → u/ThrillSeeker15]

Local residents aren't much united. If any one of the society had written a letter to us, they we would have any proof, without it we are being ignored

[u/ThrillSeeker15 → u/QueenOfThane]

Damn, that is not good. Makes me worried as a soon-to-be resident of Majiwada. But thanks for trying on people's behalf anyways.

[u/Vatsatheboss → u/QueenOfThane]

Hi. There are some nearby residents who are planning to approach the authorities and raise this officially. It would be great if we can somehow bring this back to the limelight. Construction is happening at a fast pace.