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Tania Rodríguez

01 · In focus

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person-tania-rodriguez
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Tags chile, latin-america, southern-hemisphere, santiago, cerrillos, environmental-justice, ai-infrastructure, water-justice, community-organising, time100-ai

Tania Rodríguez · 1 direct neighbour visible

02 · Connections

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03 · Background

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Tania Rodríguez (age 54 as of 2026) is a founding member and principal public voice of MOSACAT — the Movimiento Socioambiental Comunal por la Tierra y el Agua — based in the Cerrillos commune of Santiago, Chile. A former school teacher, she became the group's most visible organiser during its successful campaign against Google's proposed second Chilean data centre in Cerrillos, which was authorised to extract more than seven billion litres of water annually from a drought-stressed metropolitan commune.

Rodríguez characterises data-centre expansion as a form of "digital extractivism" and has articulated MOSACAT's position in two recurring public framings: "We end up being everybody's backyard" and "We're not against Big Tech, but in favor of nature. We don't want our countries to get steamrolled by extractivism". In September 2024 she was named to TIME100 AI 2024 — Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in AI — and appeared in Defensoras de la Tierra (premiered April 2024), a six-chapter Chilean web documentary on women environmental defenders.

04 · Sources

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  1. restofworld.org

    Checked 2026-06-13

    Rest of World 2026 — establishes Rodríguez as a founding member of MOSACAT, age 54, former school teacher in Santiago; her strategy-shift quote on disengaging from government dialogue; and her framing "We're not against Big Tech, but in favor of nature. We don't want our countries to get steamrolled by extractivism"

  2. restofworld.org

    Checked 2026-06-13

    Rest of World 2024 — source for "We end up being everybody's backyard" framing and the 2019–2023 demonstration period against Google's Cerrillos facility

  3. time.com

    Checked 2026-06-13

    TIME100 AI 2024 — Rodríguez listed among the 100 most influential people in AI (September 2024); recognises her founding role in MOSACAT and the successful campaign against Google's water-extraction plan

  4. techpolicy.press

    Checked 2026-06-13

    TechPolicy.Press 2024 — additional public statement: "It's just [data] storage and the exploitation of our natural resources"; frames data-centre expansion as digital extractivism

  5. latercera.com

    Checked 2026-06-13

    La Tercera April 2024 — source for Rodríguez's appearance in Defensoras de la Tierra, a six-chapter Chilean web documentary on women environmental defenders produced by CUBHO Audiovisual (premiered Centro GAM, 22 April 2024)

Source: entities/persons/person-tania-rodriguez.md — movement-graph pin 5d136ad.