Draining cities dry: the giant tech companies queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/22/datacentre-drought-chinese-social-media-supercomputers-brazil-latin-america
In Brazil, the Chinese social media giant TikTok is said to be the latest company planning a supercomputer warehouse that will use vast amounts of water and energy
It is a warehouse the size of 12 football pitches that promises to create much-needed jobs and development in Caucaia city, north-east Brazil. But it won’t have shelves stocked with products. This vast building will be a datacentre, believed to be earmarked for TikTok, the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, as part of a 55bn reais (£7.3bn) project to expand its global datacentre infrastructure.