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- Atlas Renewable Energy is planning a major 1-gigawatt data centre in the municipality of Paracatu.
- Local officials and citizens report they were not informed about the project prior to news reports.
- The region already faces significant water conflicts due to extensive agricultural irrigation and large-scale gold mining operations.
- Residents are concerned about the environmental impact of a massive data centre on their already depleted water supplies.
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- The progress of the licensing process for the data centre project.
- Potential environmental impact assessments or public hearings regarding the facility.
- The resolution of water conflicts in the Paracatu and Urucuia river basins.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Brazilian President
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“We are in a position to offer other countries the opportunity to build data centres,”
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…data centres are under scrutiny all around the world due to their high consumption of water and electricity. And Brazil is presenting itself as a major hub for these ventures, offering its abundance of resources. “ We are in a position to offer other countries the opportunity to build data centres, ” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said last May, before a visit to meet Trump. Paracatu became an extreme example of a movement that shakes Brazil from north to south. Data analyzed by Mongabay and…
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Named Brazil · Ministry of Energy · Almir Paraca · Atlas Renewable Energy · BlackRock · Donald Trump · Eduardo Rodrigues de Araujo · Fortunato Ferreira da Costa · Gilvan Lopes de Oliveira · Kinross · Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva · Manoel Alves · Mongabay
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