Latin America’s datacentre gold rush comes with some big risks

Latin America’s datacentre gold rush comes with some big risks
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The Washington Post
By Juan Pablo SpinettoThe region is capturing unprecedented investments for the construction of datacentres, the physical facilities that house servers, networks and data storage units to run applications and other digital services. Despite its political and economic upheavals, Latin America offers important advantages for these capital-intensive projects, including abundant renewable energy and natural resources such as metals and rare earths, a skilled local workforce and, in some cases, favourable jurisdictions or even tax incentives.As...

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