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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery

Datacenters meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

Data center aerial view
A Google data center in Santiago. Photograph: Rodrigo Arangua/AFP/Getty Images

This Q&A originally appeared as part of The Guardian’s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here.

The datacenters that power the artificial intelligence boom are beyond enormous. Their financials, their physical scale, and the amount of information contained within are so massive that the idea of stopping their construction can seem like opposing an avalanche in progress.

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