The margin for error is narrowing. The past 11 years have been the warmest on record, and every additional fraction of warming increases the risks associated with heat, drought, and water stress.
The risks associated with resource-intensive development are also becoming harder to treat as hypothetical. In parts of the United States, communities living near major data centre developments have already become embroiled in disputes over water quality.
In India, meanwhile, data centre expansion is taking place in areas where communities are already grappling with declining groundwater and water scarcity.
Closer to home, Malaysia faces its own environmental pressures. Attention is turning to El Niño, a naturally occurring climate phenomenon associated with hotter and drier conditions in Malaysia.
The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said...