Mar 20, 2023 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Brazil / Brasil
Eveo has announced that its new data center in the state of Paraná has gone live. Named PR1, this new facility is located in Curitiba, Brazil. Specifics regarding the capacity and size of the facility are yet to be shared. That being said, the company said that it had been built to Tier III st...
Feb 27, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Brazil / Brasil
Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais S.A. (CEMIG), a Brazilian energy company, has sold its share of the local data center corporation Ativas to Sonda, a Chilean IT company, which now owns the majority of the company. In a recent announcement, CEMIG stated that a share purchase contract had be...
Feb 07, 2023 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Brazil / Brasil
GlobeNet subsidiary V.tal, a Brazilian fiber company, has opened a brand-new Edge data center in Fortaleza. The facility, dubbed the 'Big Lobster,' will launch with a 4MW capacity over four data halls that can house a total of 400 racks. The innovative data center is connected to the company's...
Jan 31, 2023 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Brazil / Brasil
Soluti is launching a new data center, it has announced, to be located in Goiânia, Brazil. This announcement comes after the company completed the installation of the first Tier III quality data center in the Midwest Region of Brazil. Soluti Thus far, further specifications ...
Dec 16, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Brazil / Brasil
V.tal has announced that it's planning a new facility in Porto Alegre after acquiring a building in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. While no details related to financial terms, location, building size, or timelines were shared, the company, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet, in a s...
Nov 28, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Brazil / Brasil
Zeittec plans to develop a new data center for the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The Brazilian firm plans to develop the facility in seven months. The first phase will see Zeittec renovate UFES to allow it to receive servers and all needed data center ...
Sep 19, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian telco Um Telecom has announced that it is investing R$40 million (US$7.6m) in a new data center in Recife in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. The facility, which is expected to achieve Tier III certification, will be based at the Technological Park of Electronics and Associated ...
Apr 25, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Brazil / Brasil
The State of Rio Grande do Sul’s information and communication center plans to develop a disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul SA), will be in charge of the project. The firm will receive BRL 87.9 million ($18.3...
Dec 08, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Brazil / Brasil
OneX, a data center newcomer, has announced that by the end of 2023, it plans to construct five data centers, with an investment of 75mn reais (US$13.2mn). The first of the five, based in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais, was inaugurated on Tuesday. This data center, accor...
Oct 01, 2021 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian operator Ava Telecom has started deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. The company provided little information about what it is doing. It didn’t reveal the number of sites it is building, or how much it is planning to invest in deploying the Edge data centers. However, Mu...
Aug 30, 2021 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Brazil / Brasil
The Brazilian government is clamping down on excessive energy use amid a drought across the country. As part of this, the government is introducing measures such as a mandate to federal data centres to moderate power use. According to a source speaking to Reuters, these measures are being made...