New tech campuses are draining water from Latin America’s driest places

New tech campuses are draining water from Latin America’s driest places

As AI expands, tech giants like TikTok are building energy-hungry, water-thirsty datacenters in drought-prone regions of Latin America, sparking fears of worsening water shortages and community exclusion.Laís Martins and Francisco Amorim report for The Guardian.In short:TikTok, via a local partner, is pushing to build a vast datacenter in Caucaia, Brazil, a region that has declared drought emergencies in most of the past 21 years. The facility c…