Google Cloud — Chile Region (Santiago)

Google Cloud launched its Chile region (southamerica-west1) in Santiago in April 2021, expanding its South American infrastructure beyond the existing São Paulo region in Brazil. The Santiago region was Google's first cloud region in South America's Pacific coast, targeting the rapidly growing digital economies of Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Colombia with lower latency cloud and AI services.

Chile was selected for its political stability, strong rule of law, excellent connectivity via the submarine cable network on the Pacific coast (including the South America Pacific Link and Curie cables, the latter installed by Google), and renewable energy from the Atacama Desert solar corridor. Google has invested over $140 million in the Chile region and signed long-term solar power purchase agreements to power the facility with renewable energy.

The southamerica-west1 region supports Google AI services including Vertex AI, Gemini API, Vision AI, and Natural Language API — enabling Latin American enterprises to build AI applications with low latency and local data governance. Chile's data protection law (Law 19.628 and pending reforms to bring it in line with GDPR) and government digital transformation agenda make local cloud infrastructure increasingly important.