Divergent Futures in a Damaged Territory: The Rise of DataCenters and Water Conflicts in Santiago de Chile

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dc.contributor.authorTironi, Martín
dc.contributor.authorAlbornoz, Camila
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-23T18:28:10Z
dc.date.available2025-10-23T18:28:10Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractAs promises surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven decision-making increasingly shape debates on innovation and technological development in Chile, data centers have emerged as critical infrastructures supporting visions of digital modernization. Positioned today as one of Latin America’s leading technological hubs, Chile has become a focal point for the expansion of these infrastructures. A series of narratives has been constructed around their inevitability and urgency, framing them as essential to national progress and global competitiveness. This article examines the controversy surrounding the construction of a Google data center in Cerrillos, Santiago de Chile. Through a case study grounded in interviews and citizen mobilization, we analyze how divergent sociotechnical imaginaries confront each other in debates over water consumption, “extractivism,” and the ecological limits of AI infrastructures. Drawing on the concept of divergent futures, we explore how this infrastructural dispute reveals not only disagreements about land use and environmental impact, but also ontological conflicts over what constitutes progress, development, and the future itself. We argue that these frictions illuminate the material and planetary dimensions of AI infrastructures, demanding an ethics of “planetarity” attuned to more-than-human coexistence, territorial justice, and the reorientation of digital futures amid the climate crisis.
dc.format.extent18 páginas
dc.fuente.origenORCID
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10630732.2025.2546784
dc.identifier.issn1063-0732
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2025.2546784
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/106337
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Diseño; Tironi Rodo, Martín Carlos; 0000-0001-6569-9527; 127856
dc.information.autorucInstituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales; Albornoz Novoa, Camila Antonia; S/I; 221703
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido completo
dc.revistaJournal of Urban Technology
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectData center
dc.subjectArtificial intelligence
dc.subjectTerritory
dc.subjectExtractivism
dc.subjectDivergent futures
dc.subject.ddc620
dc.subject.deweyIngenieríaes_ES
dc.subject.ods09 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
dc.subject.ods16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
dc.subject.odspa09 Industria, innovación e infraestructura
dc.subject.odspa16 Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
dc.titleDivergent Futures in a Damaged Territory: The Rise of DataCenters and Water Conflicts in Santiago de Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen32
sipa.codpersvinculados127856
sipa.codpersvinculados221703
sipa.trazabilidadORCID;2025-10-20
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