In arid and climate-stressed Spain, one of the groups calling for a moratorium on new data centres calls itself Tu Nube Seca Mi Río – Spanish for “your cloud is drying my river”.
In recent years, Spain has become a leading destination for tech giants to set up their data centres in Europe. Madrid even aims to become a “digital hub” on the continent, like Germany and the UK. But at what cost to the environment? To cool down their servers, data centres consume billions of litres of drinking water: a huge worry in Spain, one of the countries worst affected by drought in Europe.
@negynegynegy went to investigate.
