I do not understand why so many datacenters are in hot climates with limited water supplies.
Probably cheap electricity
Most of the areas are also very "business friendly." So, lots of tax breaks and other subsidies with very little oversight and few, if any, guarantees of job creation.
Phoenix has a ton of land and no major natural disasters.
So they will be murdering hundreds if not thousands of people per year.
According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, at least 4320 people died of heat related illness in 2023 and 2024 combined. 2/3 of Arizona lives in Phoenix, so that's around 1400 people per year already. 3⁰C extra will be catastrophic.
People will come back to houses with their loved ones boiled to death because the AC broke and the repair service wouldn't risk their life sending anyone out there. People will have engine failure and die on the side of the highway before AAA can arive. Fire risk is also going to increase to absurd levels so entire neighborhoods might well burn down.
I really hope this is going to be enough to start a revolution, because that is going to be hell.
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