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REGULATORY TRIGGERS AND THE CUMULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA CENTRES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INDIA AND THE UNITED STATES

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B. LALHRUAITLUANGA DR. RAJIV BHALLA
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ISSN 2582-6433
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Volume 3
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Artificial intelligence has made electrical load the variable that decides how heavily a data centre presses on the environment. This paper argues that Indian and American law share a structural defect: the event that brings a data centre before an environmental decision-maker bears no relation to that load. In India the event is a built-up area threshold in Item 8 of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 2006. In the United States it is a major federal action under the National Environmental Policy Act, 1969, a concept the Supreme Court has recently read narrowly. A doctrinal and functional comparison shows that each federal system also places the power to review at the tier of government with the strongest reasons to promote the facility. The paper proposes a load-based trigger, a regional cumulative assessment and a public metering duty, each fitted to its own constitutional structure.   Keywords: Data centres, Artificial intelligence, Environmental impact assessment, Cumulative impacts, Federalism, India, United States.

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Authors: B. LALHRUAITLUANGA & DR. RAJIV BHALLARegistration ID: 1013641 | Published Paper ID: IJLRA13641 & IJLRA13642 Approved ISSN: 2582-6433 | Country: Delhi, India

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REGULATORY TRIGGERS AND THE CUMULATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA CENTRES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF INDIA AND THE UNITED STATES

Authors: B. LALHRUAITLUANGA, DR. RAJIV BHALLA

  • Journal IJLRA
  • ISSN 2582-6433
  • Volume 3
  • Issue 8
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