00:00Despite an online petition already gathering over 8,000 signatures calling for the suspension of approvals for two AI data
00:10centers in TNT due to water supply and electrical capacity concerns,
00:15one government minister says these or even potential environmental impact fares are premature, saying that the MOUs signed between the
00:25TNT government and U.S. organizations recently do not mean there is a fixed or final arrangement.
00:33Nothing has been defined as that. So I think maybe some of these issues are premature. But I will also
00:40add, if it comes on stream, it's going to create a huge opportunity for employment.
00:44These data centers are large, you're going to need a lot of people here. And then it's going to be
00:49a source of foreign exchange, I imagine, when the big companies use it. So I see it as positive.
00:54Speaking to reporters following the launch of a series of YTEP AI-centered short courses at the MIC Pinal campus
01:02on Monday, Minister of Tish Re-Education, Prakash Prasad, says if these AI data centers are to be constructed, all
01:11environmental checks and clearances will be undertaken.
01:15The process will be followed. So I don't think there's any need to raise any alarms at this point. The
01:21process will be followed to ensure everything is safe.
01:23The data centers are proposed to be a 300 megawatt and a 150 megawatt capacity infrastructures with potential operation in
01:33early 2028, subject to the outcome of due diligence and the parties advancing the project, according to a statement issued
01:42by the Office of the Prime Minister over the weekend.
01:45Meanwhile, reports have indicated Debe is the area within which the centers may be constructed.
01:53A prospect which Chairman of the Pinal-Debe Regional Corporation, Gautam Maraj, welcomes.
02:00We are very excited. Any activity that brings jobs to our people, we are very, very much appreciative and in
02:06acceptance of it.
02:07Because regions here and nearing regions, people are in need of jobs and so on.
02:12In terms of risk, risk elimination, the modern management approach to risk is not risk elimination in total.
02:18It is really risk management.
02:21Cindy Raguba, Chika Singh, TV6 News.
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