Amazon is planning a $21 billion investment in AI data-center infrastructure in India by 2030, and trees outside Tushar Shetty's Mumbai apartment were felled for an Amazon facility. Shetty, 46, said he would not have bought the home five months ago had he known.
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The planned Amazon facility is part of a $21 billion AI infrastructure investment in India running through 2030. For residents like Tushar Shetty, the project arrives not as an abstraction but as a changed view from a 21st-floor window. He bought his Mumbai apartment five months ago, before trees outside were felled for the Amazon data center, and he says he would not have purchased it had he known. His case sits between two forces: a national push to attract AI infrastructure and the lived concerns of people near the construction. The broader question is whether India's ability to host global data will be slowed by local objections, or whether projects will adjust to address them.
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