Hyderabad, Oct. 27 -- The Human Rights Forum (HRF) urged the Revanth Reddy government to suspend artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, owing to the severe water shortage in Telangana.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, October 27, HRF questioned the government's encouragement to set up more and more data centers despite a looming water crisis linked to El Nino conditions.

"The Chief Minister recently warned that drinking water will be unavailable. If the government cannot ensure water for agriculture or even guarantee adequate drinking water for its people, what conceivable wisdom is there in inviting notoriously water-guzzling hyperscale AI data centers into the state?" read their statement.

"Such a grotesque inversion of prioriti...