New section, building out. Climate will track how a warming, drying and increasingly
resource-constrained Asia-Pacific is reshaping energy policy, water security, agriculture and infrastructure
investment. One story so far touches directly on climate-driven resource strain; more dedicated coverage is
in the pipeline.
Published
Climate · Water Security
Twenty Olympic Pools a Day: Malaysia's AI Boom Runs Into Johor's Water Table
Data centers now draw nearly 200 times more water than ordinary industrial users. Johor told the biggest ones to wait 18 months, citing drought conditions.
In the Pipeline
Coverage planned for coming weeks: Asia-Pacific's exposure to sea-level rise and monsoon variability, the region's coal-to-renewables transition and its financing gap, and how climate disaster response intersects with the development-finance stories already running on the Business desk.