The race to build the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is running into an unavoidable and increasingly unpredictable obstacle: severe weather causing damage to data centers.
As Europe swelters through a record-breaking heatwave, the same soaring temperatures are straining power grids and public infrastructure and exposing a growing vulnerability for the massive data centers that fuel AI models. Climate-related hazards, from extreme heat and flooding to tornadoes and wildfires, are becoming one of the biggest operational and financial risks facing the sector.
