Farmers block Pune-Solapur highway over Ujani dam AI data centre; officials say it would use 0.42 TMC of water a year

Solapur's collector says the plan pairs a 2,000 MW floating solar farm on 9% of the reservoir with a data centre using closed-loop direct-to-chip cooling, rejecting protesters' claims of 6 to 9 TMC, and promises a public hearing before anything proceeds; the operator and investment are not named.