Near the end of 2023, Google silently updated its proposed data center in Uruguay to use a waterless cooling system and said it would reduce the facility to a third of its size. Pena says the fight is still not over: The government is now withholding the projected energy consumption of the latest proposal as a commercial secret. Pena also sent a petition to the ministry, with over four hundred signatories, demanding a more extensive environmental and social impact study of the full supply chain of the data center: where the minerals for producing its hardware are being extracted, how the labor
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