India, Jan. 10 -- Data centres of the future might just become a source of clean drinking water for your homes. That's the future that Uravu Labs, a Bangalore-based climate technology startup is working towards. In the last few years, they successfully built technology that converts air to drinking water, producing 5,000 litres of water a day. Now they are developing a plug-in module that they can embed into data centres to utilise waste heat and create more water, while cooling their servers.

It's an exciting time to be at Uravu Labs, situated in North Bengaluru, the new hotbed of deep tech's manufacturing desires. A potholed road meanders through under construction high-rise buildings, vast empty tracts bought by land developers, manuf...