{"id":1024210,"date":"2026-07-28T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024210"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:56:18","slug":"europes-heatwave-is-a-lesson-for-microsoft-meta-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-building-data-centres-that-not-local-protests-but-another-crisis-threatens-their-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/europes-heatwave-is-a-lesson-for-microsoft-meta-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-building-data-centres-that-not-local-protests-but-another-crisis-threatens-their-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s heatwave is a lesson for Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and other tech giants building data centres that not local protests but another crisis threatens their plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s ongoing heatwave is adding to concerns around AI data centres. Researchers have warned that rising temperatures could become a larger long-term challenge than local opposition for companies including Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and other technology companies expanding their infrastructure. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), climate-related disruption could increase the cost of operating data centres by $81 billion by 2035 and $168 billion by 2065, highlighting how extreme weather is becoming a growing operational risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s ongoing heatwave is adding to concerns around AI data centres. Researchers have warned that rising temperatures could become a larger long-term challenge than local opposition for companies including Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and other technology companies expanding their infrastructure. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), climate-related disruption could increase the cost of operating data centres by $81 billion by 2035 and $168 billion by 2065, highlighting how extreme weather is becoming a growing operational risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024211,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024210\/revisions\/1024211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}