First Street: 79 percent of global data center capacity facing "acute climate hazards"
86 percent of data centers in the Americas facing these "acute" risks
Climate change impacts, such as extreme weather events, are increasingly affecting critical infrastructure like data centers, bringing this issue to the forefront as the demand for digital services continues to grow.
The vulnerability of data centers to climate hazards poses a significant risk to global digital infrastructure, indicating potential disruptions in computing capacity and increased operational costs due to resilience measures.
Previously localized or theoretical climate risks are now quantified as acute and widespread threats to essential data infrastructure, necessitating a re-evaluation of data center location, design, and redundancy strategies.
- · Climate resilience infrastructure providers
- · Insurance companies specializing in climate risk
- · Sustainable data center developers
- · Regions with low climate hazard exposure
- · Data centers in high-risk zones
- · Companies with significant compute assets in vulnerable areas
- · Insurers underestimating climate risk exposure
- · Operators delaying climate adaptation investments
Increased investment in climate-resilient data center infrastructure and relocation to safer geographies.
Rising costs for data storage and processing across industries due to increased spend on resilience and insurance for data centers.
Geopolitical shifts as nations prioritize control over climate-resilient data infrastructure, potentially impacting data sovereignty and global digital supply chains.
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