Datacenters meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America

An expert describes how communities in some of the world's driest areas are demanding transparency as secretive governments court billions in foreign investment

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The datacenters 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.