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A Microsoft AI Data Center Saps Water From A Small Mexican Town
After decades fighting against water bottling and beer companies, rural communities in Mexico are now also having to compete against Big Tech for water.
She took us three hours outside Mexico City to see the price it takes for us to upload our photos and unread emails to the cloud, and to confront how the increasing reliance on AI may exacerbate water inequality in these newly emerging data center valleys. Baptista: We had been investigating the expansion of data centers in the Global South, and suddenly Microsoft made this announcement saying they had invested billions in the state of Querétaro and were opening up a hyperscale cloud region, which the Mexican president was very happy about. Alvarez: We’ve been talking to working folks living in sacrifice zones, where itself is being sacrificed at the altar of corporate greed and profit and technological progress as defined by big tech companies and their supporters in government.
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