Thirsty giants: Big tech’s knowledge centres multiply in drought-hit Spain | EUROtoday

In latest years, Spain has change into a number one vacation spot for tech giants to arrange their knowledge centres in Europe. Madrid even goals to change into a “digital hub” on the continent, like Germany and the UK. But at what value to the surroundings? To quiet down their servers, knowledge centres devour billions of litres of consuming water: an enormous fear in Spain, one of many nations worst affected by drought in Europe. Our correspondent Armelle Exposito investigates the environmental impression of those knowledge centres.
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