Google · Cerrillos data center, Cerrillos / San Bernardo, Santiago Metropolitan Region

Google is trying again to build a data center in Cerrillos, in Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region, after an environmental court blocked its first design in 2024. Its Chilean unit, Dataluna, asked Chile's environmental regulator on June 17, 2026 whether the new $200 million project must go through a full environmental review. The site is the same 23 hectare lot on Camino a Lonquen, on the Cerrillos and San Bernardo boundary near Avenida Lo Espejo, that Google first proposed in 2019.

Two environmental groups, OLCA and Mosacat, say the new plan is not really new: it uses the same land, the same $200 million budget and the same link to the Chena electrical substation in San Bernardo. They want regulators to order a full environmental study rather than accept Dataluna's own filing, citing 44 backup generators rated at 120 megawatts and 63 air cooling units with undisclosed refrigerant. They also want the regulator to weigh possible effects on three wetlands within about 2 to 4 kilometers of the site.

Google dropped its original design in September 2024, after Chile's Second Environmental Tribunal ruled that February that regulators had not shown the project would avoid harming the Santiago Central Aquifer, the water source its cooling system would have tapped at up to 169 liters a second. It said then it would start over using air cooling instead of water, on the same site.