Why are seven Chilean data-centre projects, including one at Alto Jahuel, seeking SEA review waivers?
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Data Centres: Boom and BacklashBackground
Alto Jahuel is a locality in Buin commune, within Chile's Metropolitan Region of Santiago. Its identity is local and geographic, rather than that of the companies and regulators named in data-centre filings.
On 17 September, reporting on seven Chilean data-centre projects seeking rulings outside full environmental review referred to an earlier case at Alto Jahuel. The available evidence does not establish the operator, capacity, diesel-storage figure or regulatory outcome for the Alto Jahuel site.
The reference matters because Alto Jahuel appears in scrutiny of how data-centre proposals enter Chile's environmental-review system. The evidence supports no wider claim about the locality's role in that sector.
Where is Alto Jahuel, Chile?
Why did a Chile data centre at Alto Jahuel seek an environmental review waiver?
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What population did Alto Jahuel record in the 2002 census?
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