September 07, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
V.tal has shared that it is expanding its footprint in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Set to be the company’s first in the country’s south region and fifth overall, the development (dubbed V.OA) will see an investment of 250mn reais (US$50.7mn), as part of the company’s wider expansion plan in Brazil and...
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September 07, 2023 México
US university subsidiary ServerDomes will build aluminum dome data centers along a new Mexican fiber route. ServerDomes, a 2017 geodesic design from Portland, has partnered with Mexican infrastructure provider Fermaca Infraestructura. Fermaca will have exclusive rights to create...
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August 09, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
The Brazilian company Zeittec will construct a new federal data center. This week, the corporation announced that a new building would be built for the Paraná Court of Auditors at the TCE-PR (Tribunal de Contas do Estado do Paraná) headquarters in Curitiba, in the southern part of the country....
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July 14, 2023 Panamá
Sparkle, Telecom Italia's infrastructure unit, has launched the Panama Digital Gateway, a 3.5MW site offering the first "green data center" in Panama. Located in the Corozal area of Panama City, the site spans 5,500 square meters (59,200 sq ft) of space for up to 650 equivalent racks across five...
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July 06, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, has acquired land in Fortaleza, Brazil, to construct a data center. The facility, which will have 20MW of IT capacity, has been named Mega Lobster. It will also be the first hyperscale-oriented initiative for the company. The size, cost, and construction...
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June 27, 2023 Chile
GTD pulled from a non-binding offer previously accepted from investment firm Macquarie Capital. The transaction would have involved purchasing 49 percent of a new subsidiary encompassing the telecommunications company's data centers in Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Fernando Gana, the general manager...
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June 19, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
México Telecom Partners (MTP), a Mexican telecommunications company, has opened a new data center in Mexico City. The entity owned by DigitalBridge reportedly put in $17.5 million in the endeavor. Location and infrastructure specifications were not disclosed. The facility is not intended for...
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June 16, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Petrobras, a state-owned oil and gas corporation in Brazil, has issued a request for proposals worth $17.2 million for the running and maintenance of its data center facilities. The company is accepting bids until August 11, and per Petrobras, the winning bidder will be the one with the finest...
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June 12, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Serpro has announced that its new data center in São Paulo has received TIER III certification. The facility has a total area of 1820 sqm and 503 sqm of prefabricated modules. The first three phases have been completed, with two further phases remaining, set to go ahead in early 2024. At full...
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June 05, 2023 Central America
Ufinet has announced that it has launched its new data center in Panama City, Panama. Certified by Uptime and Rated 3 ANSI/TIA-942-B, the facility is Tier III, although further details have not yet been released. “Ufinet in its 25 years celebrates a new achievement in the Panama branch, the...
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June 02, 2023 Colombia
In Colombia, an underused data center at Colombia's center for bioinformatics and computational biology (BIOS) in Valle del Cauca, is to be transformed into a supercomputer. According to the government, it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) to facilitate this.The Tayra facility is currently used...
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May 31, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Megatelecom, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, intends to deploy scores of Edge data centers nationwide and expand its fiber backbone. Following the fiber expansion, the company will construct a data center at the site. Megatelecom plans to repeat this process until 2028 when the company...
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May 30, 2023 Caribbean
At the Executive Sessions on Digital Leadership in the Caribbean on May 16, nine Caribbean ministers and two senior advisors signed the 'Port of Spain Commitment on Digital Integration,' an agreement to pursue collaborative, sustainable digital transformation in the Caribbean.The commitment was...
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May 27, 2023 Ecuador
Cirion Technologies' data center in Carcelén, Quito, Ecuador, has obtained Tier III Certification from the Uptime Institute, it has announced. This certification means that the company's data center meets a number of requirements, including having in place rigorous preventive maintenance...
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May 27, 2023 Chile
ClaroVTR has announced that it is expanding in Chile, with a US$320mn, 3,000m2 expansion of its 2,000m2 Liray data center in Colina municipality. This will bring the total footprint to 5,000 sqm (53,820 sq ft).According to reports, the building features three 1,000m2 clean rooms, anti-seismic...
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May 25, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Within the next two years, the Indian software company Zoho Corporation intends to install its first data facility covering Latin America in Mexico. The company has two data centers in the United States that operate in tandem to ensure continuous service. The Mexico unit will also use this model....
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May 15, 2023 Caribbean
Proteus’s underwater lab and accompanying data center have been given the green light. This follows the signing of a deal with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which saw the two agree a 2026 deployment and to conduct research together.The lab would span 2,000 sq ft (185...
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April 19, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
In Brazil, Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, ABIN, Brazil’s intelligence agency has announced the launch of a new Zeittec-built modular data center. Designed to Tier III standards, the facility reportedly has extremely high security in order to perform its function to protect confidential data...
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April 17, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
ManageEngine is reportedly considering establishing a data center in Brazil. It plans to have the facility operational by either late this year or early next, near its Santa Catarina or São Paulo offices. According to the company, regulatory barriers and import tax mean that a lack of local data...
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April 14, 2023 Colombia
I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin...
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