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Scala Data Centers has announced that it has issued green debentures worth R$2 billion (US$378m), with a maturity of five years. This is the largest green financing in Brazil and the first of its kind in Brazil's data center industry. According to the company, it will be used to finance Scala...

Scala Data Centers has signed a PPA with Italian energy firm Enel Américas for data center power. The firm will reportedly provide the data center company with 1.6GW of power for its facilities across Chile, Peru, and Colombia, in a deal that represents 10% of Enel Américas' total existing ca...

Scala Data Centers has announced its plans to develop a new facility in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. The Latin American data center company plans to invest R$250 million (US$48m) to bring the data center to life. Scala plans to use its new FastDeploy modular design for the data center. The faci...

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has received the environmental license to build the largest data center campus in Chile. The campus, which is scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2024, will have a combined 120MW of total capacity, with a projected initial delivery of...

Scala Data Centers has announced that its SP4 single-tenant hyperscale site, which was initially projected to go live in April, will now launch in July. The site, based in Tamboré in São Paulo's metropolitan region, will be the largest vertical datacenter in Latin America, spanning 13,000m2 a...

Scala Data Centers has broken ground on two new hyperscale facilities in Brazil. Scala DC was formed in 2020 by DigitalBridge for the sole purpose of developing hyperscale data centers in South America. Scala Data Centers will be developing the SP4 and SP5 hyperscale facilities in Barueri, Sao...

Scala Data Centers has announced its partnership with Maxihost, with the global bare metal cloud provider choosing Scala to help it expand the capacity of its MH1 São Paulo facility. According to Guilherme Soubihe Alberto, CEO of Maxihost, the company's MH1 facility is reaching capacity, and ...

2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see which ...

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has inked a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), a long-term energy purchase agreement with ENGIE Brasil Energia. This agreement, worth approximately 250mn reais (US$48.5 million), will see over 1,600 GWh of clean energy supplied by 2033.Speaking about the ...

In 2021, data centers are responsible for 2% of the world’s CO2 emissions, equivalent to the entire airline industry worldwide. It has also been forecast that by 2025, data centers could consume up to one-fifth of Earth’s power.Increasingly, data center companies are waking up to the fact that...

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has secured carbon-neutral certification in Brazil. This comes as the company reaches its net-zero carbon emissions targets, with 100% of its energy consumption deriving from renewable and certified sources. This makes Scala the first company of its kin...

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

Partnering with Industry Veteran Marcos Peigo, Digital Colony Acquires Premium Data Center Assets from UOL Diveo BOCA RATON, Fla. & SAO PAULO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Colony Management, LLC (“Digital Colony” or the “Firm”), the digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital...