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This group of Julian water activists called Mousekat that I profile in the book, who in 2019, they realized that there was this Google data center at that was being proposed within their community that could use freshwater resources to cool the facility. And when they started looking into the numbers, they were completely alarmed by the degree to which this facility could take up their water resources at a time when Chile was suffering A historic drought. And so they just decided not to accept the project and they essentially protested. In every form possible. They protested in the streets by canvassing their neighbors. They protested to local politicians and really applied a lot of pressure to local politicians to do something to stop the project. And they were so effective at raising the alarm around this particular facility that it escalated all the way to Google Mountain View, which then send representatives to speak with the communities and then escalate it all the way to the Chilean national government, where the government started thinking about. How do we actually make sure that other data center facilities that come into our country do not end U engaging in this kind of extraction? And they the outcome which is still ongoing is thus far Google has agreed with the community that they are not going to use fresh water for cooling the facility anymore, which is a major win for that facility.