Google takes Chile data center plans back to square one on environmental concerns


FILE PHOTO: Chile's President Sebastian Pinera delivers a speech near a Google logo during the announcement of the plans for their data centre expansion in Santiago, Chile, September 12, 2018. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/File Photo

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Google will rework from scratch its plans to build a $200 million data center in Santiago after concerns were raised about its environmental impact on the Chilean capital, the U.S. tech giant said in a statement on Tuesday.

In February, a local environmental court partially reversed a 2020 permit allowing the firm to build the data center, asking Alphabet's Google to revise its application to take into account the effects of climate change.

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