“Google’s 2019 proposal for a large data center in Santiago, Chile, faced significant community backlash. As Chile faces a prolonged drought, local residents were outraged over the amount of water the data center was expected to consume. The community’s resistance to the data center included hiring an environmental lawyer, staging protests, rallying the community, and engaging in a prolonged back and forth with Google themselves. Google ultimately agreed to implement a system that would reduce the data center’s water consumption. Meanwhile, an environmental tribunal ruled that Chile’s environmental evaluation agency had mishandled the project’s approval process, requiring Google to restart its plans.”
https://www.themaybe.org/research/data-center-report-where-cloud-meets-cement
