Will Southeast Asia’s digital rush come at a climate cost? | Climate Conversations podcast

Southeast Asia is one of the hottest markets for setting up new digital infrastructure. But this modern-day gold rush of building data centres poses a huge climate challenge - dealing with the enormous carbon footprint. Jack Board and Liling Tan give a ringside report. 

0:00 Intro
2:25 Inside a data centre
5:20 Growing demand for data centres
8:54 How much energy does a data centre use?
12:45 Green solutions vs digitalisation

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