AirTrunk's $30B India AI buildout: what it means for us (opens in new tab)

AI data centers in India just got a very large vote of confidence. According to TechCrunch, the Australian operator AirTrunk is committing $30 billion to build out 5GW of AI data center capacity in India. That is one of the biggest single regional infrastructure bets I've seen aimed squarely at AI workloads. I'm not in India and neither are most of my readers. So the interesting question isn't "good for India?" It's "what does a wall of GPUs going up next door actually change for a small-team...