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The Backyard of AI
The boom of generative AI has launched tech giants into a race to increase their computing...
An English summary of this podcast episode is below. The original podcast episode, published in Spanish in El hilo, follows
In recent years, big tech companies have built hundreds of data centers in Latin America to fuel the rise of artificial intelligence and the rampant need for greater computing power. And there are already plans to set up many more of these facilities, which house thousands of computers that run nonstop, consume millions of liters of water per day, and require enormous amounts of energy. This week we are going to Chile, one of the pioneering countries in the installation of data centers in South America, where journalist Pablo Jiménez Arandia investigated and spoke with neighbors and activists to understand how these projects operate in the region and what their impacts have been at the local level.
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Chile: el costo de alimentar la inteligencia artificial
En los últimos años, las grandes tecnológicas han construido cientos de centros de datos en América Latina para alimentar el auge de la inteligencia artificial y la necesidad rampante de mayor poder informático. Y ya existen planes para montar muchas más de estas instalaciones que alojan miles de equipos que funcionan sin parar, consumen millones de litros de agua por día y requieren enormes cantidades de energía. Esta semana vamos a Chile, uno de los países pioneros en la instalación de centro de datos en Sudamérica, donde el periodista Pablo Jiménez Arandia investigó y habló con vecinos y activistas para entender cómo operan estos proyectos en la región y cuáles han sido sus impactos a escala local.
