Cyclone Arnab struck part of India’s eastern Andhra Pradesh coast, killing three people, damaging homes and infrastructure and inundating roughly 80,000 hectares of cropland. Exceptionally high temperatures in the Bay of Bengal fueled the storm’s formation and rapid intensification, amid the country’s weakest southwest monsoon since 2015. Visakhapatnam, which experienced heavy rainfall, is the planned location of a hyperscale data center to which Google, Adani and Airtel will invest a combined $15 billion. An analysis of 228 Indian data centers estimates that more than one in ten could face significant climate-related damage by 2050, while indirect losses from disruptions to electricity, transport and supply chains are often underestimated.
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