Latin America and the Caribbean face a scenario in which AI is advancing amid significant structural inequalities: on the one hand, with critical infrastructure concentrated in a few countries and expanding; and on the other, with weaknesses in the incorporation of sustainability criteria, which poses significant challenges for the future development of the technology in... View Article
What is driving this unprecedented investment in data centers in Latin America, and what challenges does it present? Although the report by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) is not specifically about data centers, its analysis of digital foreign direct investment (FDI) provides insight into trends and factors that also influence... View Article
Data centers for artificial intelligence pose direct and indirect risks to human rights, especially the economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights of local populations. The Special Rapporteurship on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Rights (REDESCA) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has acknowledged this. It has expressed concern over the intensive use of... View Article
Do you work in AI and want to learn more about the socio-environmental impacts of data centers beyond the US and Europe? On February 10 (1 p.m. UTC), Paz Peña from DataCenterBoom! will be speaking online about the socio-environmental consequences of AI Data Centers in Latin America, spotlighting local and regional resistance movements, and unpacking... View Article
Given the socio-environmental damage data centers cause to territories and communities, are there examples of mitigation measures taken by technology companies? And if so, how were they developed, and how have they been evaluated? Furthermore, are there any cases in Latin America? Photo EFE/ Ailen Díaz A constant concern when studying the socio-environmental impacts of... View Article
Here is a summary of the statement issued by various Latin American organizations that focus on the intersection of technology and the environment, which participated in the recent COP in Belém, Brazil. The full version of the statement can be found here. Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) had been considered in previous COPs, COP30, which took... View Article
The socio-environmental impacts of data centers for Artificial Intelligence, including their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and the energy transition, are the focus of the COP 30 conversation. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the annual summit of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where member states make decisions by consensus... View Article
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