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TECHNOLOGYMay 26 · 13:00 UTCTHE GUARDIAN TECHAnna Heikkinen in Santiago de Chile. Photographs by Luis Bustamante

‘What you see here is a wetland without water’: how the datacentre boom is exacerbating Chile’s mega-drought

Chile's push to become Latin America's technology hub is intensifying a mega-drought, with datacentres linked to the drying of the Quilicura wetland. Local activist Rodrigo Vallejos and environmental group Resistencia Socioambiental de Quilicura highlight the ecological impact.

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