One winter morning in Quilicura, Chile, plumes of water vapor rose out of a warehouse-like building that serves as Google’s only operational data center in Latin America. Inside, vast halls of servers power the cloud, the invisible infrastructure that stores data and powers artificial intelligence. At 8 a.m. last month, when Chileans usually report for work, the campus looked empty, except for security guards who approached the gates when anyone loitered for too long. Data centers like this are ...