Drought-prone region attracts $10-billion of investment for new data centres from Microsoft, Google and Amazon
A two-year long drought in the semi-desert municipality of Colón, in the central Mexican state of Querétaro, has left many struggling with dead crops and water rationing.
Querétaro’s conservative governor, Mauricio Kuri, is leading the drive to attract data centres to Colón, which has drawn $10 billion of investment for new data centres from Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The arrival of data centres in other water-stressed Latin American countries, such as Uruguay and Chile, sparked protests.
Google said it was partnering with environmentally responsible suppliers that would reduce its water consumption. Fifty minutes away from Colón, La Salitrera is a community of some 400 small farmers and fishermen that depends on the tourists who come see two dams between the yellowed hills. In the market, farmers sell the scarce produce that survived the heat and drought. Guadalupe Hernández grows blackberries on a small patch of land and gets water only every 15 days. Sometimes the water is stolen at night.
Three years later, Microsoft obtained a concession to extract 25 million litres a year from underground for just one of its two data centres units in Colón.
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