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Go to PodcastThe facility is being built across two independent buildings, each housing four isolated data halls, with the first of eight planned expansion phases nearing completion. It marks Parks' first entry into data center operations after six decades as a telecom equipment manufacturer, and is being developed alongside a related initiative with the local city government to deploy flood-monitoring sensors, following major flooding that affected several regional data centers in 2024. The project is part of a broader wave of industrial investment transforming Cachoeirinha, alongside new logistics parks and manufacturing facilities in the same district.
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| 2.99 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us |
Tecto is building a second data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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| 6.65 miles | Scala: Porto Alegre SPOAPA01 |
Scala Data Centers has launched operations at its first data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil over a 43,809 sqft built area. Known as SPOAPA01, the data center has an IT capacity of 4.8MW.
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| 7.71 miles | Elea: Porto Alegre POA1 |
POA1, a colocation data center in Porto Alegre (RS), is situated in the Bela Vista neighborhood, connecting to the Southern Cone of Latin America.
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| 7.75 miles | Tecto: Porto Alegre POA1 | |
| 8.12 miles | Elea: POA2 |
Located in Porto Alegre, a key region for Brazil's expanding digital infrastructure, POA2 runs on 100% certified renewable energy.
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| 9.23 miles | EdgeUno Porto Alegre (POA) |
Founded by electronics professor Paulo Renato Ketzer de Souza, Parks has spent six decades designing and manufacturing telecom transmission equipment, including GPON/XGS-PON systems, DWDM gear, Wi-Fi mesh, and LTE routers, serving operators and regional ISPs across Brazil. Led by CEO Fábio Cierro, the company is now diversifying beyond its equipment-manufacturing roots into data center development through its new Parks Data Centers unit, framing the move as an extension of its long-standing focus on national technology and data sovereignty.
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