Data Centers & Global South

Are Africa’s power grids ready for the AI data centre boom?

African countries should plan for the AI economy by developing power and digital systems together, and treating data centres as strategic infrastructure.

Amazon’s Hidden Data Centers in India and Beyond | The Climate Watch

Tech giant Amazon has twice as many data centers worldwide, including in India, as previously reported.

Water shortages spark protests over data centres on Indonesia's Batam

Batam residents protest water shortages as data centre expansion raises resource concerns.

DIGITAL DREAMS, PARCHED REALITY: The hidden cost of Bangladesh's data industry gold rush | The Climate Watch

On the outskirts of Gazipur, north of Dhaka, bulldozers roar across the sprawling landscape of the Kaliakoir Hi-Tech Park – Bangladesh’s flagship technology

How data centres are draining water and energy from the Global South

The story started in Georgia, US—not with a law being broken in some faraway place, but with residents noticing something wrong in their own homes: the water pressure kept dropping unusually.