Big Tech eyes glacier-strewn Patagonia for building mega AI data centers — region offers 17,300 glaciers, coldness, and cheap energy, but fiber lines are scarce
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The wild beauty of Patagonia is now attracting the intense interest of investors looking for suitable land for the creation of giant data centers.
OpenAI, Amazon, and Google are also planning to build data centers for artificial intelligence in the Argentinean part of Patagonia. The question is, what would the indigenous people say about this?
While the IA data centers are facing a protest wall, particularly in the United States, Patagonia welcomes them in almost total silence. OpenAI is already investing $25 billion, while other giants are pouring in. A rush that is, of course, not without consequences.
Low temperatures, renewable energy and gas of Vaca Muerta position the region as a technological pole within the framework of the RIGI. The Argentine Patagonian region was consolidated as a strategic destination for the installation of artificial intelligence data centers driven by the availability of non-conventional gas, renewable sources, uninhabited space and a [...]
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