The industry minister clarified that the changes are due to “the cost structure” and are not due to the country’s water crisis.
He Minister of Industry, Omar Paganini, ensured that the project Google to build a data center in cannelloni “is being reformulated” and clarified that the situation occurs “for internal reasons” linked to the cost structure, thus ruling out that these are issues related to the water crisis that affects Uruguay.
The official thus ruled out that the multinational company withdraws from the country without specifying the initiative, as suggested days ago by the Environment Minister Robert Bouvier. Nevertheless, paganini He admitted in statements to Radio Carve that the original project “is not current”, but he clarified that the company is working on another that “they are about to present”.
When asked about the situation of Google, the minister indicated that the company “will come to Uruguay”, but he indicated that the original idea “is being reformulated due to the cost structure of the project and not for reasons related to water”, referring to the water deficit that the country is going through.
For Paganini, The change has to do with “the situations of the company at a global level” and he anticipated that the new initiative on which the company is working will allow, among other things, “a lower cost electrical connection for them and that consumes less water.”
Regarding the previous project, he mentioned that “there was an agreement with SBI, which included works for an additional connection.” He commented that “the engineering project for these works was ready, but it was not executed” and insisted that since Google “Now they would be proposing a different diet.”
Environment Minister Robert Bouvier had said that “Google withdrew”
the sayings of paganini cleared up the doubts that were sown weeks ago after the Environment Minister Robert Bouvier affirmed on Radio Sarandí that “the project of Google The one that is talked about so much has already withdrawn ”, although without providing the reasons for that decision. In fact, at that time, he had indicated: “Why is he retiring? You would have to ask Google”.
In this regard, he mentioned that he had a meeting with managers. “They told me that it was on hold and in a restructuring phase. I had a meeting with them to internalize myself and I don’t remember the exact term they said, if it was suspended, restructured or is in an evaluation stage. What is certain is that the project as it was is not going to be done”.
Source: Ambito
