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Ascenty announces launch date for its first Colombian data center

Ascenty has announced that it will launch its first Columbia data center in the fourth quarter of 2024, adding to its 34 data centers across Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Columbia that are either operational, in development or under construction. The company is reportedly designing two twin data ...

June 30, 2023

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Ascenty to expand footprint with plans for a new São Paulo datacenter

Ascenty is planning to expand its data center footprint following the purchasing of a 47,000 sqm (500,000 sq ft) parcel of land in Osasco, greater Sao Paulo. The company hasn’t shared further details about the scale of its development plans on this site, and is currently in the planning stage...

June 22, 2023

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Ascenty joins UN Global Compact (Organization of United Nations) in Brazil

Ascenty is the latest signatory of the UN Global Compact (Organization of United Nations) in Brazil, it has been announced. The Global Compact is a voluntary initiative that launched back in 2000 which encourages companies to adopt and promote ten universally accepted principles on human righ...

March 30, 2023

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Ascenty Raises $1 Billion For Brazilian Operations

Ascenty, a data center company in South America, has gotten more than $1 billion in funding. The corporation, which is owned by Digital Realty, disclosed that it had obtained two instruments: an offshore term credit facilities and a local capital market debenture issuance. Ita, Natixis, Scotia...

March 14, 2023

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Zeittec announces data center for Santos Port Authority

Zeittec is building a new facility for the Santos Port Authority (SPA), in São Paulo, following the signing of a construction contract. Work is due to commence in January, with projections that works will be completed in mid-2023.The facility is part of a wider digitalization project of Porto ...

January 10, 2023

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Ascenty Invests $290m To Develop Five Data Centers in Latin America

Ascenty has announced its plans to invest R$1.5 billion ($290 million) in Latin America. The funds will be used to develop five data centers in the region. The new facilities will be located in Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Upon completion, Ascenty’s data center count in the region will hit ...

November 11, 2022

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Ascenty launches fifth data center at its Hortolândia complex

Ascenty recently inaugurated its fifth data center in São Paulo, Brazil, at its Hortolândia complex. The facility, spanning 21,000 sqm (226,050 sq ft), offers space for 3,300 racks and 31MW of capacity. So far, the company has invested R$350 million (US$67.3m) in the campus and expects this f...

October 10, 2022

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Ascenty expands in Chile

Ascenty has announced the opening of its second data center in Santiago, Chile, the Santiago 2. Located in the Quilicura district of the capital, the facility will span 21,000 sqm (226,000 sq ft), with 31MW of IT load and a capacity for up to 3,550 racks.Plans were that the company would comm...

August 16, 2022

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Ascenty Completes Development of Two Data Centers in Mexico

Ascenty has announced the launch of two new facilities in Mexico. It also revealed that it has finished constructing a second data center in Chile. Ascenty first announced its plans for data centers in Mexico in 2020. It has now launched both facilities in Queretaro, Mexico. These will be t...

July 15, 2022

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Ascenty Is Developing Its Fourth Data Center São Paulo, Brazil

Ascenty has broken ground on its fourth data center in the Sao Paulo region of Brazil. The new data center will have 7,000 square meters of space while also offering 9MW of capacity. Ascenty says it will be investing up to R$220 million (US40.9m) in developing the facility. The data center is ...

January 31, 2022

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Digital Realty Completes Acquisition Of Ascenty (Press Release)

SAN FRANCISCO, May. 20, 2021 -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today its Brazilian subsidiary, Stellar Participações Ltda., has completed the previously announced acquisition of Ascenty, the leading data...

May 20, 2021

Digital Realty Trust

Oracle opens second cloud region in São Paulo, Brazil

Oracle just announced the new opening of its new Vinhedo Cloud region in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This follows the announcement of the launch of its Sao Paulo cloud region last year. The new cloud region is now its second cloud region in Brazil and its 30th one worldwide. Besides, the c...

May 12, 2021

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Ascenty opens second data center in Vinhedo

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, added yet another data center to its network. Located at the company’s mega campus in the town of Vinhedo, the facility is expected to start operations in the second half of 2020. The company invested BRL 200 millio...

January 08, 2020

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Digital Realty And Ascenty Are Building New Facility in Chile to Support a Multi-Megawatt Cloud Deployment (Press Release)

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Ascenty, a market leader in data center services in Latin America, announced today a long-term, multi-megawatt agreement with a leading global cloud provider to build a new facil...

April 25, 2019

Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty considering $1bn Acquisition of Ascenty

Digital Realty is in talks about buying Ascenty, which operates eight data centres in Brazil and is planning six more. A still unconfirmed report says that Digital Realty is talking to Great Hill Partners, the private-equity owner of Ascenty. None of the partners are commenting on the report f...

July 10, 2018

Digital Realty Trust

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