The AI boom is colliding with a new threat: severe weather

Adrian Bogdan

As Europeans scramble to stay cool amid a record-breaking heatwave , Big Tech faces its own battle to keep the powerful chips in AI data centers running. Temperatures this week have underscored the impact the weather can have on infrastructure like factories , nuclear power plants and data centers. Extra demand from air conditioning units can overload power grids, causing blackouts that can disrupt infrastructure. And it's not just in Europe. Over the past three years, severe weather has become

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