Heads up if you're a microwave popcorn person - they're apparently choc full of microplastics. Think it was a recent Veritasium video I learned that in and stopped buying them.

This is under Indias control, no?

You do. But you also plan in the case the surrounding infrastructure fails. But more to the point, in some cases it is better to produce (parto of) your own electricity (where better means cheaper) than buy it on the market. It is not really common but is doable.

Same as American companies. Send you targeted ads and news articles to influence your world view as a form of new soft power.

A fairer comparison would be Eliza vs ChatGPT.