Google Cerrillos Data Center

Cerrillos, RM, ChileStatus under review

Headline capacity: Not established in published records
Updated: Oct 28, 2026

Separate two-building Santiago proposal. Original water-cooled regulatory path was withdrawn in 2024; Google promised a new air-cooled filing at the same site. Google Cerrillos Data Center is in Cerrillos, RM, CL and is a data center campus with predevelopment status.

Program relationships

Google Chile Data Center Program · Program

Capacity

Operating IT capacity: Not established in published records

A missing figure does not mean zero. Planned, utility and generation figures are not operating IT capacity.

Development

Original water-cooled projectChanged or cancelled

2 buildings

Original environmental design is no longer an executable project approval.

Promised air-cooled successor projectAnnounced or preconstruction

Same site; new primary filing not located by cutoff.

Milestones (5)

Original Cerrillos environmental declaration filed

Jul 15, 2019 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Event type not stated

Source not linked

Original project receives RCA 127/2020

2020 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Permit approved

Source not linked

Air-cooling modification submitted as pertinence query

Feb 16, 2022 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Status changed

Source not linked

Court partially annuls approval and suspends execution

Feb 26, 2024 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Event type not stated

Source not linked

Google withdraws original process and promises new air-cooled filing

Sep 17, 2024 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Status changed

Source not linked

Participants

Google

Developer

Sources by role

Developer (1)

Google takes Chile data-center plans back to square one · Sep 17, 2024 · Corroborating

Developer (1)

Tribunal orders climate effects included in Cerrillos evaluation · Feb 27, 2024 · Primary

Other participants (3)

Municipalidad de Cerrillos

Government authority

Sources by role

Government authority (1)

Tribunal orders climate effects included in Cerrillos evaluation · Feb 27, 2024 · Primary

Government authority (1)

Judgment R-271-2020 / R-270-2020 · Feb 26, 2024 · Corroborating

Segundo Tribunal Ambiental

Government authority

Sources by role

Government authority (1)

Tribunal orders climate effects included in Cerrillos evaluation · Feb 27, 2024 · Primary

Government authority (1)

Judgment R-271-2020 / R-270-2020 · Feb 26, 2024 · Corroborating

Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental de Chile

Government authority

Sources by role

Government authority (1)

Tribunal orders climate effects included in Cerrillos evaluation · Feb 27, 2024 · Corroborating

Government authority (1)

Cerrillos Data Center — Declaración de Impacto Ambiental · Jul 15, 2019 · Primary

Site & development

Original data center buildings

Source report

2 buildings

Source

Technical specifications

Original cooling

Source report

Groundwater based cooling towers

Source

Additional project facts

Original approval

Source report

RCA 127/2020 partially annulled and suspended

Source

Permit process withdrawal

Actual

2024-09-17

Source

Infrastructure & permits

Technical details (3)

Electric grid

Cancelled or not proceeding

Original project included a substation and underground double-circuit line.

Cooling system

Cancelled or not proceeding

Original cooling towers and three groundwater wells; central climate/water issue.

Cooling system

Planned or represented

New filing promised; detailed current design not publicly disclosed.

Permit · Status not stated

R-271-2020 / R-270-2020 judicial review

Segundo Tribunal Ambiental

Feb 26, 2024

Sources (2)

Tribunal orders climate effects included in Cerrillos evaluation · Feb 27, 2024 · Primary
Judgment R-271-2020 / R-270-2020 · Feb 26, 2024 · Corroborating

Permit · Status not stated

Cerrillos RCA 127/2020

Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental de Chile

Sep 17, 2024

Sources (4)

Google takes Chile data-center plans back to square one · Sep 17, 2024 · Corroborating
Tribunal orders climate effects included in Cerrillos evaluation · Feb 27, 2024 · Corroborating
Judgment R-271-2020 / R-270-2020 · Feb 26, 2024 · Corroborating
Cerrillos Data Center — Declaración de Impacto Ambiental · Jul 15, 2019 · Primary

Permit · Status not stated

Air-cooled successor environmental process

Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental de Chile

Sources (1)

Google takes Chile data-center plans back to square one · Sep 17, 2024 · Primary

Public-source research. Plans may change. See Evidence for sources and qualifications.