{"id":20801,"date":"2025-11-11T08:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/data-centers-meet-resistance-over-environmental-concerns-as-ai-boom-spreads-in-latin-america\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T07:37:14","slug":"data-centers-meet-resistance-over-environmental-concerns-as-ai-boom-spreads-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/data-centers-meet-resistance-over-environmental-concerns-as-ai-boom-spreads-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expert describes how communities in some of the world\u2019s driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment<\/p>\n<p><em>This Q&amp;A originally appeared as part of The Guardian\u2019s TechScape newsletter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email\">Sign up for this weekly newsletter here<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The data centers that power the artificial intelligence boom are beyond<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2025\/nov\/04\/the-mind-boggling-valuations-of-ai-companies\"> enormous<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/nov\/10\/data-centers-latin-america\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/32eea00d14ec6817f74922074e0cd7f2feb54680\/436_0_3847_3078\/master\/3847.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1ed99bcc3e836611fecad550a47ee2c2\" title=\"Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America\" \/>An expert describes how communities in some of the world\u2019s driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment<br \/>\nThis Q&amp;A originally appeared as part of The Guardian\u2019s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here.<br \/>\nThe data centers 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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert describes how communities in some of the world\u2019s driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment This Q&amp;A originally appeared as part of The Guardian\u2019s TechScape newsletter. Sign up for this weekly newsletter here. The data centers that power the artificial intelligence boom are beyond enormous. Their financials, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/data-centers-meet-resistance-over-environmental-concerns-as-ai-boom-spreads-in-latin-america\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20802,"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\/20801"}],"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=20801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}