{"id":75305,"date":"2025-11-25T03:35:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/24\/mumbai-datacentres-coal-air-pollution"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:35:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:35:24","slug":"its-hell-for-us-here-mumbai-families-suffer-as-datacentres-keep-the-city-hooked-on-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75305","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s hell for us here\u2019: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India\u2019s largest cities must keep its major coal plants<\/p>\n<p>Each day, Kiran Kasbe drives a rickshaw taxi through his home neighbourhood of Mahul on Mumbai\u2019s eastern seafront, down streets lined with stalls selling tomatoes, bottle gourds and aubergines\u2013and, frequently, through thick smog.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, doctors found three tumours in his 54-year-old mother\u2019s brain. It\u2019s not clear exactly what caused her cancer. But people who live near coal plants are much more likely to develop the illness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/power-sector\/power-plants-and-neighboring-communities\">studies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nih.gov\/news-events\/nih-research-matters\/deaths-associated-pollution-coal-power-plants\">show<\/a>, and the residents of Mahul live a few hundred metres down the road from one.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/24\/mumbai-datacentres-coal-air-pollution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India\u2019s largest cities must keep its major coal plantsEach day, Kiran Kasbe drives a rickshaw taxi through his home neighbourho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,967,800,65,62,454,466,61,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-computing","category-environment","category-india","category-mumbai","category-pollution","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75306,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305\/revisions\/75306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}