We are aware of the other hazards that data centres bring in and so we are opposing it now.” As per Amazon’s regulatory submission to Thane Municipal Corporation, the planned data centre would require 1,25,000 litres of water per day. It said: “Amazon’s data centre development in Thane will not use any water for cooling. The Amazon data centre planned in Thane is one of 30 such mega data centres proposed to be set up across the State. Eknath Shinde announcing the data centre policy after returning from Davos is a repeat of that old pattern.