SEA’s AI boom has a water problem it cannot offset away

Every hyperscaler courting Southeast Asia now performs the same reassurance ritual. Ask Microsoft, Google, or AWS about the environmental cost of the data centres they are racing to build across the region, and the answer arrives pre-packaged: efficient cooling, renewable offsets, and community engagement. Worse, tech giants have even started telling reporters that their facilities […] The post SEA’s AI boom has a water problem it cannot offset away appeared first on e27.