Milei's Patagonia Pitch: No AI Rules, Lower Taxes and an Open Door for American Tech

Trump ally Javier Milei is courting OpenAI, Amazon, Google and Oracle with cold air, open land and a promise to "leave it free."

By Clara Hughes

While some communities in the United States and Europe push back against giant data centers, Argentina's President Javier Milei is making the opposite pitch: come south, and bring your servers. "We are not going to regulate artificial intelligence," Milei told the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington last month, according to The Associated Press. "We are going to leave it free." Euronews and the AP reported Monday that Milei, described as an ally of President Trump, is courting AI data-center investment in Patagonia with light regulation and a proposed tax cut. Patagonia's appeal is practical, the report said: plenty of empty land, cool air, strong winds, and gas from the Vaca Muerta shale formation to power and cool the facilities. Keep reading with Altas Premium. Below: who has been knocking on Milei's door, the $3 billion project on the steppe, the tax deal awaiting Argentina's Senate, the backlash,