Permits & regulation
Chilean environmental court partially annuls Google data-center approval
Confirmed
- Date
- 2024-02-27
- Location
- Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile
- Category
- Permits & regulation
On February 27, Chile’s Second Environmental Tribunal partially annulled the environmental approval for Cerrillos Data Center. It ordered the assessment process reopened to consider climate-change effects on the water component and the Santiago Central aquifer. The established event is a court ruling about inadequate assessment, not proof that an operating center had depleted the aquifer. This was a proposed Google data center; the cited reports do not establish a dedicated AI workload.