Argentina's Milei pitches Patagonia as AI data center haven as backlash grows in US and Europe
Associated Press · Isabel DeBre ·
Data centers are facing a growing backlash in the United States and Europe. Argentina wants to lure them anyway. President Javier Milei is pitching Patagonia to tech giants as a haven for artificial intelligence, touting open land, abundant wind and gas, proposed tax breaks and a promise not to regulate AI. But the plans remain mostly on paper, with investors wary of next year’s election. The biggest test is near Trelew, where a Polish developer plans a $3 billion campus that at full capacity could use nearly three times as much electricity as Buenos Aires. Ranchers who leased the land welcome it. Others fear the environmental toll and question what Argentina will get in return.
Argentina’s Milei pitches a regulation-free AI haven at the end of the world
Data centers have become one of the world’s most polarizing issues, but Argentina’s president wants to attract as many as possible. As residents and policymakers in the United States and Europe push back against the facilities that power artificial intelligence, President Javier Milei is pitching Argentina as a haven, promising a hands-off approach to attract the foreign investment his crisis-prone country needs. (AP video shot by Cristian Kovadloff. Produced by Isabel DeBre)
TRELEW, Argentina (AP) — Data centers have become one of the most polarizing issues in the world. Argentina’s president wants to lure as many of them as he can get.
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