SAN DIEGO, Sept 17 (Askume) – U.S. technology giant Google will restructure plans to build a $200 million data center in San Diego amid concerns over the plan, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
In February, a local environmental court partially overturned a 2020 permit that allowed the company to build the data center and ordered Alphabet ‘s Google (GOOGL.O) to stop the project.
Google received preliminary authorization for the data center in early 2020, but the plan has since sparked anger among residents and local officials over its potential impact on the capital’s drying aquifer.
Chile has suffered from drought for more than a decade, requiring millions of liters of water each year to keep data servers cool.
The company told Chilean environmental regulators that it “will no longer pursue a permit application for a project to build a data center near Cerrillos, as originally proposed and approved in 2020.”
“Over time, the new process will begin using air cooling technology in the same space,” Google said.
