{{ Paraguay shares the Itaipú Dam along the Paraná River with Brazil, and historically sold surplus hydroelectric power from the 14-gigawatt facility — more than twice the size of the U.S.’s largest dam — to its much-larger neighbor at rates that many Paraguayans resented as undervaluing a national resource.
“They can’t put that in a tank and ship it overseas,” Rubio, who visited Paraguay in 2024 on what he claimed was the first visit from a sitting U.S. senator in 40 years, told a Senate hearing last May. “So someone, if they’re smart, someone is going to go down to Paraguay and open up an AI facility.” }}
One thing for sure, the average impoverished Paraguayan won’t see a dime from this.
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