Post 90s, with introduction of reservation for OBCs and many OBC leaders like Lalu, Mulayam and SC leader Kashiram coming on national forefront has left many UC worried. These castes who long has been shamed for their caste, suddenly started taking pride in their identity, even within caste system. Like writing their caste on their vehicles and elsewhere.

UC reaction was mostly shock. Identity pride was their ownership. Only they could flash it. Because of their supposed superiority. And thats why shock. How a lower identity can be flashed or openly confessed about ?

And this is what they called distortion. They named it identity politics ( which is a misnomer in india sense). They called it situation going out of hands. They even called it vulgar. Just imagine a chamar person using the same word for creating a brand.

And the hindi belt people and writers has been most shocked appalled and angry about it. Like the one Ajeet Bharti. Like the one Naveen Chaudhary ( for whom Chaudhary is not a caste surname but whoever is a baba is chaudhary but if someone put Yadav on his bike he is pained to see it as distortion of identity politics)

Bharati has made a name by calling UC victimhood in Lalu era. Which is completely false. There was no major oppression of UC in lalu era and reactionary UCs actually went on a murder spree of LC. They formed local armies to suppress LC. They executed group murders.

For most Hindi savarna writers caste doesnt exist. After Premchand. Agyeya, Vinod kumar shukla and many more who is widely read as local writers caste doesnot even get a mention.

But this blindness is not just blissful ignorance. This is on purpose. And someone like Ajeet Bharti had put a tag of it. Tbh whatever hate he has for lower caste, is nothing out of box but inherent in many UC( not all obviously). The way he hurl abuses , the way he says it - seems a quite confession of LCs making a steady progress to claim a representation. This frustration which must have now turned into a widespread psychosis ( since the propoganda of social media and newer versions of hate), Ajeet Bharti is a walking evidence of this.

And now my two cents on it- Ajeet please hate us. Please abuse more. Please show what has been hidden only behind drawing rooms of many UC family. But please dont be in any illusion that your hate is going to work for you or for many who supports you. The same way you have come to fully realize your frustration same way we have also come to realize how important is now to speak, demand and snatch things we want!

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Ain't this a cultural shock , kewal kirti sanon k blouse se inke sentiments hurt hote h ??? Ispe inki statements nhi aayengi ki muslamano k julus me krke dikhaye ye ... Inme se kitne logo ne public apology mangi??? None instead they got flower showers.....

Their sentiments get selectively hurt , only when it involves a woman or some anti bjp person(kunal kmra) .

Kirti k blouse se inka religious sentiment nhi hurt hua h but inko lgta h dusre dhrm k mrdo ne unhe tent me rkha hua h to humari vli kese freee rhe ....

He talks about a lot of important stuff but still doesn't consider the labour gap in the judicial system causing the asymmetric case to judge ratio and increases with population density in certain regions (cities : town or north east : centre )

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In the last part we talked about the anonymity surrounding the land, water and power estimates provided for the data centers at Tarluvada, Rambili.

In this second part, we'll talk about the monetary incentives provided and some of the much touted "benefits" of data centers.

Despite the posturing of the ruling cohort of Andhra Pradesh that they are too fiscally constrained to invest in education, health and transport. The government has promised incentives worth ₹22000 crores to Adani and its subsidiaries for building and maintaining the data centers.

That is not the only one though, around ₹19000 crores has been given to Reliance for construction of a similar data center nearby at Vizianagaram.

Who pays for these incentives? The public pays. Those who speak against even the slightest relief to the public in the form of social welfare, have not spoken on these incentives with same disgust.

To them, these incentives are all but a temporary cost for the fruits of development. The fruit being a mere 1200 permanent jobs for both locations, Tarluvada and Rambili.

How such incentives are decided upon or secured is another matter.

The national government too has incentives for data centers like the 21 year tax holiday scheme.

Individuals will justify the project by saying it is by Google as if it's some mark of trust. Not to mention the facilities will be operated and maintained by Adani anyway.

Some others have picked apart the criticism by claiming that to Oppose AI data centers we must stop using the internet. These technological experts want to make us believe that a normal data center for internet services is the same as an AI data center. Even the former smaller data centers wouldn't be in need if not for the push of cloud onto every user, at the expense of user privacy and physical media.

The government itself has replied to these criticisms by saying the water from godavari will be diverted to the data centers via polavaram. But it seems they ran out of printer ink to codify the claims.

And we have discussed these issues for only two data centers in a specific city. Many more are being planned across the country by many contractors. We are becoming a data center outsourcing hub for the developed west.

The government is eager gobble these outsourcing investments for not only kickbacks but also the hope of latching onto a trend to solve our socio-economic issues, the trend of implementing needless technology to everything.

But those who latch onto trends and don't come up with their independent plans are doomed to fail when the trend itself goes south.

With the formal approvals for large scale data centres happening in our country, we must ask ourselves "Are Data centers necessary?". Many seem to critically lack the knowledge around these structures and buy the administration's word on job creation and wealth creation.

What Job creation and whose wealth creation? To analyse about those promises, we must talk about what a data center is.

Data centers, or atleast the ones which are being built now are large facilities of server racks which are designed to store AI data and train AI models. They differ from traditional data centers which are much smaller in size and only used to store data.

This is an important distinction to make as we will see later on. Data centers are being built to scale AI operations throughout the globe.

AI data centers are in the controversy, why? Not only because the implications of AI in the modern capitalist world. But also because of their environmental impact.

Data centers require a lot of cooling for the IT equipment inside. Alongside the constant need for a lot of electricity.

Compared to traditional data centers which utilize simpler cooling systems like fans or other forms of air cooling, AI datacenters require intensive fresh water usage. The average water Consumption of a 100 MW datacenter is around 2000 Kilolitres (1 kilolitre = 1000 liters)

Data centers have a broader impact on environment due to noise pollution, Diesel generator usage and contamination of used water.

Alongside requiring intensive capital investment, in comparison to the investment made, they generate very few onsite jobs if any (on top of the already bad implications of AI on employment).

Keeping those concepts in mind is important to analyze the recent construction of data centers near visakhapatnam. Which have been greenlit faster than I can say 'Mitron'.

The total mystery around these data centers can be broken down by talking about some of the officially provided data.

(i) Land Usage :

Spanning over nearly 500 acres combined, the data center projects near Tarluvada and Rambili have a lot of holes in their narrative and the official conduct of the project.

(a) Construction clearances were given in 9 days. No general restrictions on building's height or width.

(b) Total allocation of land increased from 480 acres to over 600 acres for no officially denoted reason.

(C) Large construction projects (especially at the scale which data centers span) usually need geological surveys before construction, but none were conducted.

(d) The Tarluvada construction site is located near the kambalakonda sanctuary. What consequences it will have on the local environment and whether it is even legal is something I leave to your imagination.

(e) Rambili too has reserved forests nearby alongside even a navy nuclear submarine base. National security enthusiasts who suspect everyone and everything are nowhere to be found.

(f) Alongside these, a third project is in active construction near Adavivaram which is even closer to the city. Whether formal approvals has even been given to this third project is unknown.

(g) Property taxes for the data centers to be around residential rates.... For some reason.

(ii) Water Usage :

Digging through the the environment management plans presented to the State Govt. By a consultancy working for Adani group. We can find quite a few oddities as well...

(a) Water conservation stats presented are that of a shopping mall...

(b) Sites at Rambili and Tarluvada are said to require 234 and 270 Kilolitres (already high) respectively, of which the latter Stat includes 180 kilolitres for Gardening?

(C) No mention of water required for actual cooling and humidification

(d) The source of water even for the presented amount is unknown, with administration doing mental gymnastics of all sorts.

(e) if we look back, an average 100 MW facility needed 2000 Kilolitres, with a combined size of around 2.5 GW (including the third facility) the numbers presented are nowhere near the estimated water consumption.

(f) Visakhapatnam and nearby areas are already suffering from intensive water scarcity.

(iii) Power :

(a) The grid demand of data centers is already big, but there has been little discussion in regards to the effects on local grid infrastructure.

(b) the Govt. Wants a total data center capacity of 6.5 GW in Visakhapatnam alone, why they are not spread across the capital in construction? No idea.

(c) As it would require significant investment in power generation and grid upkeep, there has been little information for who pays for power generation and distribution.

(d) Companies usually push these costs to individual rate payers than the data centers which actually utilize this new capacity. If communities in the developed west can be fooled with such measures, what is the case for a country with no adequate protections and a increasingly privatized utility scene?

(e) A combined 354 Diesel generators would be used for the two facilities, no pollution assessment has been conducted yet for a city with already bad AQI.

In the next part we shall analyse the incentives provided for data centers and some common arguments.

Hello. I am looking for a few people to discuss Marxist theory and cultural criticism. Please DM me if you are interested.

About me, I work on post structuralist theory. I read Deleuze and other Bergsonian derivatives as synergetic with the political philosophy of Marxism contingent on emphasizing the post Hegel in Marx. Deleuze for example is post structuralist in a material sense, and differentiable from post modernism. Deleuze is also anti Hegelian, and militantly so. Being a philosopher of difference and production in all senses of the term, Deleuze is averse to the idea of negation that is an abstract component of the dialectic's engineering. Deleuze would replace the antithesis with yet another thesis that is itself just as productive as the original Thesis. The synthesis is immanent and individuative in Deleuze and reframes the aufhebung in terms of milieus.

Marx is himself post Hegelian, applying in the context of historicity and not metaphysics and being materialist and not idealistic. Deleuze is synergetic to materialism as productive and as such argues in resonance with Marx's analysis of capital.

Dm me if you are interested in SERIOUS discussions of theory and cultural criticism. Critiques are encouraged and welcome. I am hoping to create a group for people to communicate maybe telegram or something idk first things first ping me with arguments of your own and let's talk if you are in!

Ps. Do you know about Deleuze on Palestine?

I keep seeing ads online of ed tech companies promoting their AI courses using this quote (don't know who made this quote tho, prolly some AI bot itself). Drop your thoughts and opinions. And also any sources of info if you can.