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Scala Data Centers launches operations in Port Alegre, Brazil

Scala Data Centers has launched operations at its first data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil, dubbed SPOAPA01. This data center has an IT capacity of 4.8MW and was developed with an investment of $48 million, dedicated to hyperscale customers. SPOAPA01 is fully powered by certified renewable ...

December 29, 2023

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers makes $215m green-tied issuance

Latin America data center provider Scala Data Centers has issued $215 million of green debentures, marking the second largest green-tied issuance in the Brazil data center sector. The funds will be used to construct hyperscale data centers which will have an annual PUE of less than 1.45, with ...

November 22, 2023

Scala Data Centers

OData announces new data center facility in Santiago, Chile

LatAm data center firm OData announced the launch of its second data center facility in Chile called the DC ST02, located in San Bernardo in the south of Santiago. This new addition to the Aligned-owned company’s portfolio offers 40.6MW across 366,000 square feet and features an on-site substa...

November 09, 2023

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New York-based IBM spin-out Kyndryl to separate China business in response to changing data laws

Global IT managed services provider Kyndryl is now considering separating its business in China into a separate entity in response to several geopolitical issues and the changing data laws in China.According to a report from the Financial Times, the IBM spin-out revealed this to some of its em...

October 03, 2023

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Scala intends to construct a 5MW data center in Mexico City

Scala Data Centers is constructing a new campus just outside Mexico City, Mexico. This week, the company owned by DigitalBridge announced intentions to build SMEXTP01, its first data center in the country. The facility, located in the municipality of Tepotzotlán, will have an initial critical ...

August 25, 2023

Scala Data Centers

Odata unveils its data center facility in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Odata, a data center company from Latin America, has opened a new campus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This week, the company announced the debut of its RJ01 facility, which provides up to 24MW. On a 20,000-square-meter lot in So Joo do Meriti, the facility features 18,000 square meters of raised...

August 25, 2023

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Scala Data Centers' site in Curauma, Chile is operational

Scala Data Centers developed its first facility in Chile and commenced operations at its 5MW Curauma data center. This is Scala's third data center to be launched this year, following the opening of additional sites in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The new facility is already completely leased...

August 09, 2023

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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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IBM plans to construct a quantum data facility in Germany

IBM will construct a data center in Germany to house quantum processors. This week, the company revealed plans to establish its first quantum data facility in Europe on the IBM campus in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, to facilitate cutting-edge quantum computing for businesses, research institution...

June 07, 2023

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CloudHQ purchases over 120 acres in San Antonio, Texas.

CloudHQ has purchased land in San Antonio, Texas, to construct a data center campus. The company has acquired nearly 123 acres of land in the Texas Research Park, just down the street from Microsoft's Bexar County facilities. The University of Texas System sold CloudHQ the land bounded by Lamb...

June 07, 2023

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Scala Data Centers launches the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, São Paulo, Brazil

Scala has announced that it has launched the second largest vertical data center in Latin America, SGRUTB05, which adds 6MW of IT capacity to Tamboré Campus. Located in the Tamboré Campus, in Barueri city, it has a built area of 6,700 sqm, is 35.5 meters high, and has five floors, three of wh...

May 25, 2023

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers signs iMasons' open letter for greater use of greener concrete

Scala Data Centers has announced that it has signed an open letter published by iMasons Climate Accord (ICA), a non-profit striving for responsible digital transformation and sustainable digital infrastructure. The initiative strives to promote sustainable raw materials in the data center ind...

May 12, 2023

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers Opens a Data Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Scala's new data center in Rio de Janeiro for Scala Data Center is now operational. The Brazilian data center has a 7.2MW hyperscale capacity and only one anchor tenant at the moment. The So Joo do Meriti campus, where the SGIGSM01 facility is situated, will have 55MW of IT capacity when fully...

April 25, 2023

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Brazil's Odata Gets Licences For Santiago Data Center

Carlos Salata, the quality manager for Odata, stated that the company's ST01 data center in Santiago, Chile, has obtained three ISO certifications, completing the process of obtaining this set of labels for all of its regional sites. The ISO 9001, ISO 20000-1, and ISO 27001 certifications were...

April 17, 2023

ODATA SA

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

Ascenty

IBM Will Open San Sebastián Quantum Computing Facility at Ikerbasque Campus

A quantum computer will be installed in San Sebastián, located in the Basque Country of Spain, thanks to a collaboration between IBM and Fundación Ikerbasque. The IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computing Center is anticipated to launch by the end of 2024. It will deliver Qiskit Runtime services from a...

March 28, 2023

IBM Cloud

Robotic Dogs Are Being Tested For Facility Assessments by Scala Data Centers

Robotic dogs are being tested by Brazilian data center operator Scala for fire safety assessments. While Scala doesn't specify the brand or manufacturer, the robot appears to be a Go1 from the Chinese company Unitree. The Go1 is a little smaller than some other robot dogs, at around 30 cm t...

March 16, 2023

Scala Data Centers

Scala Data Centers' Senior Director of Data Center Deployment is Revealed

Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five ...

March 15, 2023

Scala Data Centers

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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