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June 2, 2025
Pulitzer Center Grantee Responds to Questions About Data Center’s Impact on Brazilian City
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From Destruction to Speculation
How data center companies are working to avoid regulation at the local and federal levels.
Based on questions left in comments on the Intercept Brasil's Portuguese Instagram page, a video explains what is behind the installation of a mega data center in Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil.
According to a report in The Guardian and Intercept Brasil, as the demand for supercomputer facilities rises, fueled by the AI boom, Brazil is attracting more tech companies.
However, data centers use vast amounts of energy and water to cool their supercomputers, and Caucaia suffers from extreme weather events, including droughts and heavy rains.
(Read the complete report, by Lais Martins and Fracisco Amorim, in English in The Guardian and in Portuguese in the Intercept Brasil.)
