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Foundation stone laid for Google's data center in Uruguay
Representatives of technology giant Google and the Uruguayan Government, including President Luis Lacalle Pou, took part Thursday in the ceremony marking the laying of the foundation stone for the company's future data center in Pando, in the department (province) of Canelones, within...
Google's data center at the Science Park on Route 101 in Pando will cost around US$ 850 million. Works are expected to take 26 months. The South American country's authorities highlighted the project's sustainability and the confidence in the country it represented. In her speech, Fazio underlined that sustainability was a “key driver for development” in addition to being a reality from the energy viewpoint, given that 97% of the country's electricity generation is renewable. There are “few countries that can offer this condition,” she stressed. This center is “a necessary incentive for other industries, which we have identified as having growth potential in the country, to gain momentum to project themselves to the world,” she also said.
I am blown away by the claim that Uruguay has 97% of the electricity generation that is renewable. That is pretty impressive.