The report “Capturing the Data Center Opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean” by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), authored by García Zaballos, A., Puig Gabarró, P., Iglesias Rodriguez, E., & Pérez Colón, R., and published in October 2025, contains important information for understanding the state of the discussion on data center investment in Latin... View Article
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
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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