The two-minute reel, taken from video reporting by our partners Shamsheer Yousaf and Monica Jha from India, examines a proposed Google data center project in Visakhapatnam (Vizag) and its reported impact on Dalit lands and local communities. The reel was published on May 19, 2026, collaboratively across Shamsheer’s as well as the ERC’s social media platforms as part of our global “Dirty Data” investigation, which examines the human and environmental costs of the rapidly expanding data center industry.

The video gained significant public attention, particularly on Instagram, where it went viral the following day and has since recorded more than 2.6 million views. On May 22 at approximately 2.00pm, ERC received a notification stating that the reel was no longer available in India.