The technology company had submitted a new environmental report months ago, and received authorization from the Executive Branch at the beginning of June.
Google received authorization from the Uruguayan government to install a data center in the country after the technology giant had to make environmental modifications to the project. The infrastructure will be located in the Science Park of Cannelloni, and its construction would take at least 26 months.
The possibility that Google The idea of building a data center in the national territory has been going around for several months, but the project was encountering different obstacles and challenges that were delaying the final authorization by the government. Mainly, the questions were in the environmental area due to high demand for water which requires the cooling system necessary for this type of infrastructure.
In this regard, at the beginning of March, the American company presented a new environmental report with the aim of being able to pass the evaluations and, thus, begin the construction of its second data center in South America, the first in Uruguay. And after several negotiations, the Ministry of Environment authorized the project in early June, Telemundo confirmed.
Although the works have not yet begun, Google The government has up to two years to begin construction of the project, otherwise the government authorization will be invalidated. The authorization also includes a series of conditions, such as a ban on using the road. Gonchi Rodriguez and the obligation to inform the National Directorate of Quality and Environmental Assessment any variation from the original project, as well as establishing mitigation measures if unforeseen environmental impacts are detected.
What changes were made to the project at an environmental level?
The new environmental project presented by Google He proposed reducing the data center’s original capacity to one third, using a single building instead of two, and using different technology for the cooling system.
In this way, 32 refrigerators, also called chillers, which will be cooled by air through a closed water circuit, recirculating the liquid used through a substation UTE which will be built within the property.
On the other hand, the report established that the operation of the data center will generate several types of wasteincluding noise emissions and wastewater, but explained how each of them would be treated.
Source: Ambito
