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CloudHQ Has Begun Development of a 228MW Data Center Facility in Brazil's So Paulo

A new hyperscale facility is being built by data center company CloudHQ in Brazil's state of So Paulo. A groundbreaking ceremony was performed by the company in Paulina. It will be CloudHQ's first location in the region and in South America. According to reports, the new 228MW complex will ...

March 02, 2023

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Odata invests in wind park for renewable supply

Odata has reportedly acquired a minority stake in Omega Energia's 212MW Assuruá IV wind farm, in Bahia state's Xique-Xique municipality. Through this acquisition, the Brazil-based datacenter group will secure renewable energy for its data centers. Moreover, the company claims that the investm...

February 28, 2023

ODATA SA

Scala Data Centers issues R$ 2 billion in green debentures

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...

December 22, 2022

Scala Data Centers

Patria Investments Looking To Sell Odata For $1.8 Billion

According to Estado, Brazilian private equity firm Patria Investments is looking to sell its data center unit Odata. The Brazilian data center firm was established in 2015 and it offers colocation services from three data centers in Brazil and one each in Mexico and Colombia. Odata is value...

November 23, 2022

ODATA SA

Scala signs 1.6GW PPA with Enel Américas

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...

November 14, 2022

Scala Data Centers

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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Scala Data Centers To Invest $48M in Developing a Data Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil

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 f...

October 11, 2022

Scala Data Centers

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

Ascenty

Scala Data Centers to build the largest data center campus in Chile after obtaining environmental license

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...

October 10, 2022

Scala Data Centers

CloudHQ To Develop a 180MW Facility in Minnesota

According to BizJournal, CloudHQ has plans to develop a data center in Chaska, Minnesota. The data center campus will sit on 72 acres of land in Carver County, Chaska. Per the filing, CloudHQ wants to either develop a large 1.8 million square feet (167,225 square meters) building or four build...

September 01, 2022

CloudHQ

CloudHQ Begins Construction of 80MW 1.5 Million Square Feet Data Center Campus in Illinois

CloudHQ has announced that it has begun constructing a new facility in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), an energy provider, said the (140,000 square meters) 1.5 million square feet data center campus would cost $2.5 billion. The first phase of the development i...

August 29, 2022

CloudHQ

International Finance Corporation (IFC) Pumps $35m into Brazil’s OData

International Finance Corporation (IFC) has announced the investment of $35m into Odata. The company announced on LinkedIn that it is supporting the growth of the Brazilian data center firm with the capital infuse. Odata will use the capital to develop a second data center in Querétaro, Mex...

August 22, 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

Ascenty

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

Ascenty

CloudHQ Acquires Land in Culpeper County For 60MW Data Center Campus

CloudHQ has completed the acquisition of 100 acres in Culpeper County, Virginia. The data center developer is looking to develop a build-to-suit data center campus with up to 60MW capacity spanning 2.1 million square feet. According to Daily Progress, CloudHQ acquired the property for $12 mill...

July 06, 2022

CloudHQ

Scala’s SP4 hyperscale datacenter to go live in July

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...

July 04, 2022

Scala Data Centers

Odata Opens 8.4MW Data Center in Querétaro, Mexico

Odata has launched its first data center in Mexico. Rumor also has it that CyrusOne, an existing stakeholder, will acquire the rest of the Brazilian firm from its founders, Patria Investments. Odata opened the new data center in in El Marqués, Querétaro, Mexico. The first phase of developme...

May 19, 2022

ODATA SA

Patria Looking To Sell its Odata Data Center Firm

According to Valor Economico, Patria Investments is mulling over the sale of its data center firm Odata. The report has it that the Brazilian asset manager is in advanced talks with investment banks and international merger & acquisition firms to determine who will handle the transactio...

April 08, 2022

ODATA SA

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

Ascenty

CloudHQ's Cloud Capital Buys COPT's Manassas Data Center For $222m

Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has announced that it sold a data center in Manassas, Virginia, for $222.5 million. The buying firm is CloudHQ’s investment arm. COPT revealed that it sold the DC-6 facility to Cloud Capital, CloudHQ’s affiliate company. The data center is a two-stor...

January 27, 2022

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