New Insight
The new insight comes from reading unlike stories together. A 1GW data-centre campus needs power, cooling and land. The same issue shows how energy limits in Cuba affected water and health, how waste delays triggered a major protest, and how extreme heat raised fire risk. AI does not directly cause these events. The connection is that future AI growth competes for and depends on civic systems whose resilience already matters for ordinary life.
Fact and interpretation
The cited reports establish the planned data-centre campus, Cuba's energy-linked health warning, Zagreb's waste delays and Sydney's heat risk. Connecting them as shared civic-capacity pressure is OnTheRice's interpretation.
Strongest opposition
The locations and causes differ, so this is a systems-capacity hypothesis, not a causal finding.
What could change this view
The insight weakens if new campuses are largely self-sufficient and do not add material pressure to local systems.