{"id":981862,"date":"2025-12-24T08:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981862"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:43:44","slug":"ai-data-boom-in-mexico-fuels-rise-in-dirty-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/ai-data-boom-in-mexico-fuels-rise-in-dirty-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data boom in Mexico fuels rise in dirty energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUERETARO, Mexico: Mexico is attracting ever \u200dmore sprawling data centers but a shortage of renewable energy means Big Tech is pumping oil, firing up gas generators and using diesel to fuel the global boom in artificial intelligence (AI). <\/p>\n<p>The shortfall in green power &#8211; despite pledges by industry and government to grow capacity &#8211; has overloaded the country&#8217;s existing power infrastructure \u2060and exacerbated local pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUERETARO, Mexico: Mexico is attracting ever \u200dmore sprawling data centers but a shortage of renewable energy means Big Tech is pumping oil, firing up gas generators and using diesel to fuel the global boom in artificial intelligence (AI). The shortfall in green power &#8211; despite pledges by industry and government to grow capacity &#8211; has overloaded the country&#8217;s existing power infrastructure \u2060and exacerbated local pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}