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Elea Digital raises $100 million in sustainability-linked debt

Brazilian data center Elea Digital announced this week that it raised over $100 million in sustainability-linked debt. This fund will be used to aid ongoing organic expansion and align the company's infrastructure with international standards. Alessandro Lombardi, president of Elea Digital, s...

January 03, 2024

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Elea Digital launches 2.5MW expansion of its RJO1 data center

Brazilian data center provider Elea Digital has launched an expansion of its data center after investing R$100 million to add 500 square meter space and 2.5MW of IT capacity to its Rio de Janeiro data center dubbed RJO1.With this expansion, the facility’s total capacity is now 5MW, enabling it...

October 23, 2023

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Elea Digital expands Brazilian data facility with $20m

Elea Digital, a Brazilian data center corporation, has invested more than $20 million in expanding its Rio de Janeiro data center. The data center in issue, RJ01, has doubled its capacity from 2.5MW to 5MW, and the additional 5,380 sq ft of data center space can accommodate up to 200 more rack...

June 07, 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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Elea Digital announces sustainability-linked bond

Brazilian data center firm Elea Digital has announced its first sustainability-linked bond. It has reportedly issued a $38 million bond to invest in more water-efficient equipment, through which it hopes to reduce its Water Usage Efficiency (WUE) to 0.31 liters and 0.2 liters per KW/h by By 20...

December 09, 2022

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Piemonte Holdings' Elea Acquires TIM Brasil's Facility in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Brazilian data center company Elea Digital has bought a data center facility in Porto Alegre from TIM Brasil. The facility is called POA2, and its first phase has a capacity for 500 racks. Elea Digital is owned by Piemonte Holdings, and it says it plans to expand the data center in the futu...

October 30, 2022

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Elea Digital to develop data center in Porto Alegre

Elea Digital, a Brazilian edge data center company, has announced that it is developing a new data center following the purchase of a hyperconnected property owned by TIM, in Porto Alegre (RS). The company has outlined that it expects the project to become the largest data center in the south...

October 20, 2022

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Piemonte Holdings to invest 600m reais ($116m) in data centers

Piemonte Holdings, a Brazil-based firm, plans to invest 600m reais ($116m) in data centers throughout the rest of the year. The Rio de Janeiro-based firm says it will be expanding its existing data centers and buying new sites in Brazil in H2 of 2021. CEO of the firm, Alessandro Lombardi, says...

August 05, 2021

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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

São Paulo

Oi Group begins selling its assets, closing the data centers deal with Piemonte Holding

SÃO PAULO, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, from Rio de Janeiro, closed last Friday (12) the acquisition of five data centers from Oi for a total amount of R$ 367 million (approx. USD 70 million). The transaction is in accordance with the amendment to the ju...

March 15, 2021

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