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Read Kio Data Centers Signs 10-year PPA with Celsia to Power its Data Center Operations in Panama
Kio Data Centers Signs 10-year PPA with Celsia to Power its Data Center Operations in Panama

Kio Data Centers Signs 10-year PPA with Celsia to Power its Data Center Operations in Panama

May 25, 2026 Panamá

KIO Data Centers, a Mexico-based operator, has signed a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Colombian energy company Celsia to supply electricity for its data center operations in Panama. First reported by Bnamericas, the agreement marks KIO Data Centers’ first recorded PPA in Panama. The...

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Read Omnia Signs $2bn Wind Deal with Casa dos Ventos to Power a ByteDance Data Center in Brazil
Omnia Signs $2bn Wind Deal with Casa dos Ventos to Power a ByteDance Data Center in Brazil

Omnia Signs $2bn Wind Deal with Casa dos Ventos to Power a ByteDance Data Center in Brazil

May 19, 2026 Brazil / Brasil

Omnia, a Brazilian data center platform, has signed a 20-year power supply agreement with renewable energy firm Casa dos Ventos to support a data center planned for ByteDance. According to Reuters, the $2 billion deal will power the facility located at the Pecém port complex in Ceará, in...

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Read I Squared Capital Buys Brazil-Based Elea
I Squared Capital Buys Brazil-Based Elea

I Squared Capital Buys Brazil-Based Elea

April 28, 2026 Brazil / Brasil

Investment firm I Squared Capital has acquired a majority stake in Brazilian data center operator Elea. Announced this week, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Elea operates nine data center campuses across Brazil, including in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. The company has...

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Read Banorte partners with Hitachi Vantara on data center migration
Banorte partners with Hitachi Vantara on data center migration

Banorte partners with Hitachi Vantara on data center migration

March 06, 2026 Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Mexican financial institution Grupo Financiero Banorte has partnered with Hitachi Vantara to migrate its operations from a Mexico City data center to a facility in Querétaro and upgrade its mainframe storage environment. According to Banorte, the migration was motivated by a desire to reduce the...

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Read Cerebras Signs MoU for 100MW Facility in Guyana
Cerebras Signs MoU for 100MW Facility in Guyana

Cerebras Signs MoU for 100MW Facility in Guyana

November 12, 2025 South America

AI chip company Cerebras and the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana this week announced they have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to build and operate an artificial intelligence (AI) data center of up to 100MW in Wales, Guyana.“We are delighted to partner with...

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Read Omnia Joins TikTok's $9bn Data Center Project in Brazil
Omnia Joins TikTok's $9bn Data Center Project in Brazil

Omnia Joins TikTok's $9bn Data Center Project in Brazil

November 07, 2025 Brazil / Brasil

Omnia, the data center company owned by Brazilian investment fund Pátria, is to develop a data center in Brazil, with an estimated investment of 50 billion reais ($9.4bn), which will exclusively serve TikTok.The project is expected to consume an estimated 300MW of electricity, making it the...

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Read Elea Data Centers to Build 30MW Data Center in São Paulo
Elea Data Centers to Build 30MW Data Center in São Paulo

Elea Data Centers to Build 30MW Data Center in São Paulo

October 04, 2025 Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian operator Elea Data Centers is to build a data center for oil and gas firm Petrobras. It is reportedly the largest information technology infrastructure initiative ever contracted by a Latin American company. The project includes the implementation of a high-capacity data center, set to...

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Read X8 Cloud Plans AI Data Center in Paraguay
X8 Cloud Plans AI Data Center in Paraguay

X8 Cloud Plans AI Data Center in Paraguay

October 03, 2025 Paraguay

Los Angeles-based startup X8 Cloud Infrastructure has announced plans to build an artificial intelligence and cloud services data center complex in Paraguay, leveraging hydroelectric power. They signed an agreement with Paraguay's National Electricity Administration (Ande), represented by Felix...

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Read Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile
Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile

Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in Chile

September 05, 2025 Chile

Chile’s undersecretariat of telecommunications (Subtel) this week authorized a request submitted by Starlink to roll out six ground stations across the country. Five of them will be located in the Metropolitan Region - in the municipalities of San Bernardo, Pudahuel, Las Condes, and Quilicura....

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Read Antel Plans Two New Data Centers
Antel Plans Two New Data Centers

Antel Plans Two New Data Centers

August 01, 2025 Uruguay

Uruguay's government-owned telecommunications company, Antel, has announced that it wants to expand its infrastructure with two new data centers, as announced by the company's president, Alejandro Paz, during his visit to the Ing. José Luis Massera data center.On the creation of a data center for...

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Read San Jose and PG&E Sign Deal to Guarantee Power Delivery
San Jose and PG&E Sign Deal to Guarantee Power Delivery

San Jose and PG&E Sign Deal to Guarantee Power Delivery

July 30, 2025 San José

The City of San Jose in California has signed an Implementation Agreement with utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to streamline and guarantee power delivery for data centers and other large load customers. According to the partners, the deal is in response to the skyrocketing...

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Read Data center Inaugurated at Port of Imbituba, Brazil
Data center Inaugurated at Port of Imbituba, Brazil

Data center Inaugurated at Port of Imbituba, Brazil

June 23, 2025 Brazil / Brasil

A new data center has been energized at the Port of Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil. According to the developer, the data center will integrate neural networks and artificial intelligence to automate the Ports process and reduce response times during its operations.The facility cost an estimated...

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Read Enegix to Build 100MW Crypto Facility in Piauí
Enegix to Build 100MW Crypto Facility in Piauí

Enegix to Build 100MW Crypto Facility in Piauí

June 20, 2025 Brazil / Brasil

Bitcoin-focused data center firm Enegix Global has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with local authorities in the Brazilian state of Piauí to build a 100MW data center. The planned facility is expected to cost up to $120 million and will run on idle state grid energy, with a project...

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Read Edgenet Launches Edge Data Centers in Mexico
Edgenet Launches Edge Data Centers in Mexico

Edgenet Launches Edge Data Centers in Mexico

June 12, 2025 Mexico City / Ciudad de México

Edgenet has launched in Mexico with aims to deploy a network of 30 Edge data centers across the country. Last week, the company announced the launch of Mayia, the first artificial intelligence (AI) center with the "Made in Mexico" designation, awarded by the Ministry of Economy.“Basically, our...

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Read TECfusions to Develop Data Center Campus in Puente Alto, Chile
TECfusions to Develop Data Center Campus in Puente Alto, Chile

TECfusions to Develop Data Center Campus in Puente Alto, Chile

June 06, 2025 Chile

TECfusions and Baeza Group have secured land for a 100MW data center project in Puente Alto, Chile. The campus is expected to be able to launch with an initial 10MW of capacity, and an additional 10MW available from the local grid. Eventually, TECfusions plans to expand the campus to 100MW. The...

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Read SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM
SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

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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Read Atalait to expand its data center in Metepec, Mexico
 Atalait to expand its data center in Metepec, Mexico

Atalait to expand its data center in Metepec, Mexico

October 24, 2024 México

Mexican IT firm Atalait has announced plans to invest $100 million expanding the site, located in Mexico State. The initiative aims to double the capacity of the data center and significantly expand its offerings. Leonardo Rodríguez, vice chairman of Aktiva Capital and vice president of Atalait,...

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Read V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary
V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary

V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary

October 23, 2024 Brazil / Brasil

Brazilian fiber firm V.tal has launched a new data center subsidiary. At the same time, the company has broken ground on a new facility in Fortaleza and acquired land in São Paulo for its first data center in the city.“The Tecto Data Centers brand was officially launched yesterday during an event...

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Read Liberty Latin America acquires mobile spectrum from EchoStar
Liberty Latin America acquires mobile spectrum from EchoStar

Liberty Latin America acquires mobile spectrum from EchoStar

September 07, 2024 Puerto Rico

Liberty Latin America (LLA) has acquired spectrum assets from EchoStar in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.The acquisition also includes close to 85,000 pre-paid mobile subscribers, confirmed LLA in a statement.LLA will pay $255 million for the assets, to be paid across four installments,...

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Read Grupo ClickIP launches data center in Manaus
Grupo ClickIP launches data center in Manaus

Grupo ClickIP launches data center in Manaus

August 31, 2024 Brazil / Brasil

Brazil’s Grupo ClickIP this week launched a new facility in Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas and launched a new data center unit. The company said it invested more than R$20 million ($3.59m) in the project, reportedly the first of its kind in the area....

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