Cold comfort
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- from Shaastra :: vol 05 issue 04 :: Apr 2026
As heat-spewing data centres rise across India, the focus now is on ways to keep them cool.
It was the summer of 2021, and Srikanth Kanduri and Prashant Rudrangi were heads-down developing what would be India's first indigenous liquid cooling system for data centres. Artificial intelligence (AI) was still to become a household word, but the two Hyderabad-based men — with backgrounds in industrial and electrical engineering — had seen the future. As AI models grew, there would be AI factories powering their training. And like all factories, they would need cooling.
They were right. At the India AI Impact Summit 2026 held in New Delhi in February, the government estimated investments of up to $250 billion in AI infrastructure, including data centres and semiconductor facilities.
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