- Microsoft and Google say their data centers in Chile would create thousands of jobs.
- Permit filings show the largest data centers have the potential to create only hundreds of full-time jobs, mostly in security and cleaning.
- Residents say the local community has not benefited from foreign investment.
One winter morning in Quilicura, Chile, plumes of water vapor rose out of a warehouse-like building that serves as Google’s only operational data center in Latin America. Inside, vast halls of servers power the cloud, the invisible infrastructure that stores data and powers artificial intelligence.
