The summer heat is hitting data centers hard — and outages and downtime may only get worse

Liquid cooling infrastructure overhead pipes routes into powerful AI servers.

• 54% of global data center capacity is at risk of temperature-related climate stress
• Before damage even occurs, operating costs can soar to keep up with cooling demands
• Future projects should focus on temperature projections and resource availability

A new First Street report has identified extreme heat as one of the most significant long-term risks that data centers face worldwide, with rising global temperatures, higher hardware power density and strained cooling demands all contributing to the problem.