Cerrillos

Google · Santiago (Cerrillos), Región Metropolitana, Chile

Not built yet. Every figure below is what it would take and emit at the capacity its owners have announced.

Water — consumed, not returned

Where the water comes from

Municipal potable supply

Cooling

Redesigned to air cooling after the original water-cooled permit was struck down

Basis

Modelled from cooling design — WUE 0.10 L/kWh

Air — what the stacks emit

Where it burns

Chile — SEN

Generation mix

Solar 22 · Coal 18 · Gas 20 · Hydro 26

CO₂e

275 kt/yr — climate, not air quality

Who wanted it

Who asked for it

Google — self-build

Who approved it

Chile's First Environmental Court revoked the environmental permit in January 2024, finding the groundwater assessment inadequate; Google refiled with an air-cooled design in 2025

What it serves

Google Cloud southamerica-west region

IT capacity

0 MW running of 120 MW announced

The only case worldwide where a court has voided a hyperscaler's environmental permit specifically over aquifer impacts. Santiago has been in a structural drought for more than a decade, and the project became a national test of environmental review.

Where it is

-33.5000°, -70.7100°

Google Maps Satellite See it on the map

Water and air figures are modelled from disclosed capacity, not measured — site-level error is roughly ±40%. Diesel backup generators are not counted, so on-site figures are floors. Full method.