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Sustainable by Design: Can India's AI Ambitions Align with Climate and Governance Goals?

Author(s) Dr. Kiran Estarla
Country India
Abstract India's dual pursuit of artificial intelligence leadership and climate responsibility has produced a policy landscape in which digital ambition and ecological restraint sit uneasily together. This paper examines whether the IndiaAI Mission, approved in March 2024 with an outlay of ₹10,371.92 crore, can be reconciled with India's updated Nationally Determined Contributions, which commit the country to a 45 percent reduction in emissions intensity and 50 percent non-fossil power capacity by 2030. Drawing on government budget documents, sectoral energy forecasts, and comparative governance literature, the paper maps three points of tension: the electricity demands of expanding data-centre infrastructure, the absence of binding sustainability clauses in AI compute-allocation frameworks, and the governance gaps left by data-protection and algorithmic-accountability regimes that were not designed with computational intensity in mind. The paper argues that 'sustainable by design' is presently more rhetorical aspiration than institutional practice, and proposes a framework linking compute governance, renewable-energy procurement, and resource-impact disclosure to close this gap. It concludes that India's AI strategy can advance climate and governance goals simultaneously only if sustainability criteria are embedded into Mission architecture now, before infrastructure commitments harden into fixed, difficult-to-reverse capacity.
Keywords IndiaAI Mission; AI governance; climate policy; data centres; sustainable development; digital constitutionalism; energy transition; algorithmic accountability
Published In Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024
Published On 2024-12-03
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.87088
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