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International Business Times
International Business Times
Science
Pedro SCHWARZE

Drought Forces Big Tech To Rethink Thirsty LatAm Data Centers

A prolonged drought in South America has forced Google to change the designs of cooling systems at two planned data centers in Chile and Uruguay to prevent them from consuming billions of liters of water each year (Credit: AFP)

A prolonged drought in much of South America has forced tech giants like Google and Amazon to rework their plans for water-guzzling data centers.

Data centers housing huge servers are springing up around the world to store the flood of data sucked up from billions of smartphones, tablets and other connected devices.

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