‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought (opens in new tab)

The country is positioning itself as Latin America’s next technology hub, but communities are pushing backThe Andes mountains frame what was once a wetland – now a stretch of dry, yellowed grass. Rodrigo Vallejos, a final-year law student, noticed the change five years ago while observing the Quilicura wetland, on the northern outskirts of Santiago. One of , was drying up right before his eyes.“What you see here is a wetland without water,” says Vallejos, who has investigated the causes along...