Inside the data center boom that's consuming Chile's last water

May 29, 2026 - 04:26
Updated: 2 months ago
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Data center facilities at the Quilicura wetland north of Santiago, Chile, operating amid severe regional drought.

The Quilicura wetland, just north of Chile's capital, Santiago, has the largest concentration of data centers in Latin America. Consuming billions of liters of water annually, data centers have exacerbated dry conditions in a swamp already suffering from the worst drought in over 100 years of recordkeeping.

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Christopher Holloway

Christopher Holloway is the founder and director of Progressive Robot, a UK-based technology company. A full-stack engineer with more than two decades of experience, he works across PHP development, ecommerce, Linux infrastructure, technical SEO and AI automation, and writes here on technology, AI, hardware and software.

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