{"id":16015,"date":"2024-09-25T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/mexicos-datacentre-industry-is-booming-but-are-more-drought-and-blackouts-the-price-communities-must-pay\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:37:16","slug":"mexicos-datacentre-industry-is-booming-but-are-more-drought-and-blackouts-the-price-communities-must-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/mexicos-datacentre-industry-is-booming-but-are-more-drought-and-blackouts-the-price-communities-must-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s datacentre industry is booming \u2013 but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many fear the arrival of tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the state of Quer\u00e9taro will place too much of a strain on scarce water and electricity resources<\/p>\n<p>In a nondescript building in an industrial park in central Mexico, cavernous rooms hold stack after stack of servers studded with blue lights, humming with computations and cooled by thousands of little fans and large vents blasting great columns of air across the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDatacentres are the lungs of digital life,\u201d says Amet Novillo, the managing director of Equinix Mexico, a digital infrastructure company, as he stands in the middle of the airflows that stop the hardware overheating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/sep\/25\/mexico-datacentre-amazon-google-queretaro-water-electricity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ecdd3d6cdd1fb4e1dba43205979546052b64c77b\/0_433_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=97acccc1b39e354bcfdc375a1ae00bfb\" title=\"Mexico\u2019s datacentre industry is booming \u2013 but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?\" \/>Many fear the arrival of tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the state of Quer\u00e9taro will place too much of a strain on scarce water and electricity resources<br \/>\nIn a nondescript building in an industrial park in central Mexico, cavernous rooms hold stack after stack of servers studded with blue lights, humming with computations and cooled by thousands of little fans and large vents blasting great columns of air across the room.<br \/>\n\u201cDatacentres are the lungs of digital life,\u201d says Amet Novillo, the managing director of Equinix Mexico, a digital infrastructure company, as he stands in the middle of the airflows that stop the hardware overheating. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many fear the arrival of tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the state of Quer\u00e9taro will place too much of a strain on scarce water and electricity resources In a nondescript building in an industrial park in central Mexico, cavernous rooms hold stack after stack of servers studded with blue lights, humming &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/25\/mexicos-datacentre-industry-is-booming-but-are-more-drought-and-blackouts-the-price-communities-must-pay\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mexico\u2019s datacentre industry is booming \u2013 but are more drought and blackouts the price communities must pay?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}