Tecto Data Centers is a business unit of V.tal, which offers unique Edge and Hyperscale solutions, with the ability to offer a complete and integrated portfolio of connectivity solutions from the V.tal ecosystem. With neutral operations and an experienced team, Tecto guarantees performance and continuous availability, with sustainability and national digitalization as important pillars of its business.
V.tal's data center arm, Tecto, is developing a new facility in São Paulo, Brazil. This upcoming data center has already secured its initial power supply and is slated to operate entirely on renewable energy.
Tecto's BDC-2, located next to BDC-1 in Barranquilla, hosts 200 racks. V.tal invested more than $20 million in the project.
Fortaleza Cable Landing Station functions as the direct landing point for the submarine cables, housing the Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE) and providing powering for the cables.
Mega Lobster data center is located in Fortaleza, Brazil. Developed by Tecto, the facility was finalized in Q4 2025 following the completion of its precast structure and the commissioning phase.
Tecto operates a 1,600 m² cable landing station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Tecto is building a second data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
BDC is located adjacent to its cable landing station in Barranquilla and hosts 80 racks.
January 17, 2025 Colombia
SUR Holdings has acquired Colombian telco WOM, providing a lifeline for Colombia's fourth-largest mobile network operator, which filed for bankruptcy in April of last year, weeks after its Chilean counterpart. The country's ICT minister Mauricio Lizcano said the investment from SUR Holdings,...
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June 03, 2024 Colombia
The Cayman Islands government has revealed plans to deploy a new subsea cable. Ranulf Scarbrough, who leads the Cayman Islands Submarine Cable Modernisation Project for the Cayman Islands Government, presented the self-governing British Overseas Territory’s plans at the Subsea Networks EMEA...
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December 26, 2023 Colombia
Colombia’s ICT Ministry MinTIC has confirmed that the country's 5G spectrum auction raised about $380 million, falling short of the expected $500 million. Claro, Partners Telecom Colombia (WOM), and Union Temporal Colombia Móvil-Telefónica all secured 5G licenses in the auction, which lasted nine...
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June 02, 2023 Colombia
In Colombia, an underused data center at Colombia's center for bioinformatics and computational biology (BIOS) in Valle del Cauca, is to be transformed into a supercomputer. According to the government, it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) to facilitate this.The Tayra facility is currently used...
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April 14, 2023 Colombia
I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin...
Read moreSeptember 21, 2021 Tecto: Barranquilla 1
Just two weeks after announcing its new Edge data center in Fortaleza, Brazil, Globenet has announced the construction of a new Edge data center in Barranquilla, as it continues to expand to meet demand. By the end of 2022, the company plans to have a total of five Edge data center locations in...
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