Nepal Desk

Reporting from Kathmandu on hydropower, latency, and sovereign-compute policy — the coverage this site is uniquely placed to do first-hand.

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Nepal Desk2026-08-15

Nepal's New Government Wants AI Data Centers. Its Hydropower Has a Six-Month Asterisk.

Nepal's Rastriya Swatantra Party government wants to turn hydroelectric surplus into exported AI compute within five years. The math: a real 1,200 MW monsoon surplus, a dry season the country still covers with Indian imports, and a Sovereign AI Compute Center budget line with no allocation, timeline, or operator yet.

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Nepal Desk2026-08-15

How Far Is Kathmandu From the Cloud? I Measured Every Major Region Myself

Real TCP-connect latency, measured live from a Kathmandu residential connection to six AWS regions and three major AI APIs — Mumbai comes in at 44ms, Virginia at nearly 300ms, and the AI APIs are suspiciously fast for a reason worth explaining.

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