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Cyclone Arnab hits India’s data-center coast, where Google
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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.
Key facts
- India is among the top 10 most vulnerable countries to climate impacts and has suffered losses of $170 billion in the three decades from 1995 to 2024, the period for which the latest data
- Pakistan’s 2022 floods killed more than 1,730 people and caused over $30 billion in damage and economic losses, according to a government-led assessment
- A 2025 assessment by climate-risk analytics firm XDI of 228 Indian data centers projected that more than 1-in-10 would face high risks of damage from climate change by 2050 under a high-emissions
- 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
Summary
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. 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. Unusually high temperatures across the Bay of Bengal, an already warm atmosphere and heat stored below the surface helped fuel Arnab, according to K.J. Ramesh, a former director general of the Indian Meteorological Department.