Otero knew she had one thing Vallejos did not: affiliations with prestigious universities like Harvard and Columbia that would command Microsoft’s and the government’s attention. She began to mount a multipronged campaign, growing so deeply involved that she quit her job: She spoke at high-profile conferences about the environmental impacts of data centers and Resistencia’s fight against them; she forged connections with the Chilean Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation and with representatives at Microsoft and Google; she connected Vallejos and Arancibia to other
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