Cyclone Arnab hits India’s data-center coast, where Google, Adani and Airtel plan to invest $15 billion in a hyperscale data center
Source: Fortune ·
Meteorologists said unusually high temperatures across the Bay of Bengal helped fuel Arnab.
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A cyclone that powered up over unusually warm ocean waters hit part of India’s coastline that’s dense with billions of dollars of investment in data centers, underscoring the threats to infrastructure as extreme weather becomes more frequent. Cyclone Arnab battered parts of eastern Andhra Pradesh state Wednesday, killing three people, damaging homes and infrastructure and inundating roughly 200,000 acres of cropland, according to state authorities. Heavy rainfall was the biggest threat inland as the storm weakened. Meteorologists said unusually high temperatures across the Bay of Bengal helped fuel Arnab. Its arrival on a coastline where billions of dollars are being invested in data centers at early stages of construction underscored how extreme weather threatens both existing livelihoods and the infrastructure intended to drive future growth, climate experts said. It will likely take days or weeks for full damage estimates to be calculated. Warmer seas and a faltering monsoon…