It sounds like local efforts are using the lack of taxes being paid to be the reason for uproar. Low CO2e energy and no longer using water for cooling is a win.
I don't know how they got the air conditioning to 25T of CO2e / year but I have to assume thats based on an anticipated refrigerant leak (high CO2e equivalent).
I'm all for local sites getting benefits so they should get them though I bet whoever put the deal together is taking them for themselves.
I had a quick search and the top result for a datacenter in a mine is in Norway https://www.lefdalmine.com/ . I grew up next to a salt mine in the Alps, and those mines are really cold places. The mine is even, by the nature of the former mining, multi-story which most overground datacenters are not. Uruguay doesn't have mines, but I sure with some creativity they could use the heat produced by the data center for other industrial processes.
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It sounds like local efforts are using the lack of taxes being paid to be the reason for uproar. Low CO2e energy and no longer using water for cooling is a win.
I don't know how they got the air conditioning to 25T of CO2e / year but I have to assume thats based on an anticipated refrigerant leak (high CO2e equivalent).
I'm all for local sites getting benefits so they should get them though I bet whoever put the deal together is taking them for themselves.
I had a quick search and the top result for a datacenter in a mine is in Norway https://www.lefdalmine.com/ . I grew up next to a salt mine in the Alps, and those mines are really cold places. The mine is even, by the nature of the former mining, multi-story which most overground datacenters are not. Uruguay doesn't have mines, but I sure with some creativity they could use the heat produced by the data center for other industrial processes.