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They're it going to be dumping servers in the river. They'll get moved to whatever recycling infrastructure is nearest, or maybe resold on the second hand market. From what the article says, the local economy and farming industry has been in decline since long before Microsoft bought land for a data center. A picture of a stack of pipes, with no verification that they're even hooked up, aren't exactly proof of anything either.
It seems to me that this isn't about Microsoft or data centers, but about the local government versus the wider government. The locals don't want a data center but the government above their local representation doesn't care, and has the power to give out permits for this kind of stuff.
I'm sure there's illegal waste dumping by the construction companies as locals say (which heavy fines or even prison sentences should be handed to), but data centers aren't exactly chemical plants. There are many other downsides to data centers (such as fresh water consumption during hot summers, which India has plenty of, orthe impact on the local power grid) but as far as I can tell this is a political disagreement/power imbalance spun into an environmentalist story against a Big Bad Foreign Company to gain sympathy.