'Data embassies' promise bubbles of digital sovereignty, but India just cooled on the idea

Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play

Embassies are bubbles of sovereignty that local authorities cannot freely enter and in which certain communications are privileged – an arrangement that is generally agreed as essential to facilitate international relations. And now the same protections are being suggested as needed to create a "data embassy" – datacenters that local authorities can't access and in which nations can store info and run software on foreign shores.…