{"id":17965,"date":"2025-03-04T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/power-struggle-will-brazils-booming-datacentre-industry-leave-ordinary-people-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T12:40:02","slug":"power-struggle-will-brazils-booming-datacentre-industry-leave-ordinary-people-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/power-struggle-will-brazils-booming-datacentre-industry-leave-ordinary-people-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Power struggle: will Brazil\u2019s booming datacentre industry leave ordinary people in the dark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While millions live with regular blackouts and limited energy, plants are being built to satisfy the global demand for digital storage and processing \u2013 piling  pressure on an already fragile system <\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six hours by boat from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, Deodato Alves da Silva longs for enough electricity to keep his tucum\u00e3 and cupua\u00e7u fruits fresh. These highly nutritious Amazonian superfoods are rich in antioxidants and vitamins, and serve as a main source of income for farmers in Silva\u2019s area. However, the lack of electricity to refrigerate the fruit makes it hard to sell their produce.<\/p>\n<p>Silva\u2019s fruit-growing operation is located in the village of Boa Frente, in Novo Aripuan\u00e3 municipality, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/brazil\">Brazil<\/a>\u2019s most energy-poor regions, where there is only one diesel-powered electricity generator working for a few hours a day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/mar\/04\/brazil-power-electricity-energy-poverty-datacentre-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/47aa6cb436791b257e1dc4b1ad0b71c7334fc0f0\/0_222_5530_3320\/master\/5530.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c1c73cd4e25ab5c1ec85189ed6076fdb\" title=\"Power struggle: will Brazil\u2019s booming datacentre industry leave ordinary people in the dark?\" \/>While millions live with regular blackouts and limited energy, plants are being built to satisfy the global demand for digital storage and processing \u2013 piling  pressure on an already fragile system<br \/>\nThirty-six hours by boat from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, Deodato Alves da Silva longs for enough electricity to keep his tucum\u00e3 and cupua\u00e7u fruits fresh. These highly nutritious Amazonian superfoods are rich in antioxidants and vitamins, and serve as a main source of income for farmers in Silva\u2019s area. However, the lack of electricity to refrigerate the fruit makes it hard to sell their produce.<br \/>\nSilva\u2019s fruit-growing operation is located in the village of Boa Frente, in Novo Aripuan\u00e3 municipality, one of Brazil\u2019s most energy-poor regions, where there is only one diesel-powered electricity generator working for a few hours a day. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While millions live with regular blackouts and limited energy, plants are being built to satisfy the global demand for digital storage and processing \u2013 piling pressure on an already fragile system Thirty-six hours by boat from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, Deodato Alves da Silva longs for enough electricity to keep his tucum\u00e3 and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/04\/power-struggle-will-brazils-booming-datacentre-industry-leave-ordinary-people-in-the-dark\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Power struggle: will Brazil\u2019s booming datacentre industry leave ordinary people in the dark?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17966,"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\/17965"}],"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=17965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}