Paz Peña’s Portfolio

“They have announced the construction of a data center in my community. What should we do?” This was the question that guided part of my Mozilla Senior Fellowship in 2025. Data centers and their capabilities are multiplying worldwide as artificial intelligence gains importance in the global economy. How can we bridge the gap in access to information about the socio-environmental consequences of AI, specifically in Latin America?

Based on case studies from Brazil, Chile, and Querétaro in Mexico, we created DataCenterBoom!, a repository of information for communities and local authorities so they have information available about why a data center is being built in their community, a catalog of its socio-environmental consequences, a section on how public policy has responded, as well as lessons learned from different local resistance movements to these infrastructures.