Chile pulls approval for giant Google data center

The World

An environmental court in Chile is suspending approval for Google to build a giant data center. There are significant concerns around the data center’s ecological impact as the country faces a major water crisis. Host Carol Hills speaks with Lauren Bridges, fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, about how data centers consume water and why countries are concerned.

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