April 25, 2022 Brazil / Brasil
The State of Rio Grande do Sul’s information and communication center plans to develop a disaster recovery data center. Procergs (Centro de Tecnologia da Informação e Comunicação do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul SA), will be in charge of the project. The firm will receive BRL 87.9 million ($18.3m)....
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April 07, 2022 Argentina
Arsat has announced that it is investing $70 million to build a new HQ located at the Bariloche Technological Industrial Productive Park (PITBA). Alongside this announcement, the government-owned communications firm also said it will be developing a backup data center in Bariloche in the...
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April 04, 2022 Puerto Rico
A new data center is on its way to Saint Kitts and Nevis, it has been announced. Saint Kitts and Nevis are neighboring islands to the east of Puerto Rico. Timothy Harris, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis, announced that a state-of-the-art facility would be built in the country in a plan to...
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February 22, 2022 Latin America (LATAM)
According to Expansion, Asterion Industrial Partners wants to sell its data centers in Latin America. Interestingly, the investment firm bought the facilities from Telefonica in 2019. The report has it that the company has contacted the services of Investment bank Greenhill & Co. to raise...
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February 02, 2022 Puerto Rico
Continent 8 Technologies has announced the opening of a data center in Puerto Rico. The firm offers hosting and data center solutions to online gambling and betting companies. Continent 8 did not reveal the details of the data center. The company’s general manager for Latin America, Gabriel...
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December 15, 2021 Ascenty Rio de Janeiro
Ascenty has announced the opening of two new data centers in Hortolândia and Janeiro, Brazil. Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Digital Realty jointly own the data center firm. Ascenty opened its second data center at its RIO campus with 3MW of power and 3,000 square meters (32,300 square...
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December 08, 2021 Brazil / Brasil
OneX, a data center newcomer, has announced that by the end of 2023, it plans to construct five data centers, with an investment of 75mn reais (US$13.2mn). The first of the five, based in the Vale do Aço (steel valley) region of Minas Gerais, was inaugurated on Tuesday. This data center,...
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December 01, 2021 El Salvador
Costa Rican firm Codisa has begun construction on a new data center in El Salvador. The IT firm will partner with real estate firm Aristos Group to develop the data center. The facility will have a total capacity of 3.5MW, and it will house 322 racks. The facility is named DataTrust and it is...
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October 15, 2021 Argentina
The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a digital infrastructure loan of $100 million repayable in 25 years to improve connectivity in Argentina. With the loan, the development of digital connectivity in remote areas will become a reality. The loan will also be used to improve the...
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October 06, 2021 Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x
Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total...
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October 01, 2021 Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian operator Ava Telecom has started deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. The company provided little information about what it is doing. It didn’t reveal the number of sites it is building, or how much it is planning to invest in deploying the Edge data centers. However,...
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September 21, 2021 Tecto: Barranquilla 1
Just two weeks after announcing its new Edge data center in Fortaleza, Brazil, Globenet has announced the construction of a new Edge data center in Barranquilla, as it continues to expand to meet demand. By the end of 2022, the company plans to have a total of five Edge data center locations in...
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August 30, 2021 Brazil / Brasil
The Brazilian government is clamping down on excessive energy use amid a drought across the country. As part of this, the government is introducing measures such as a mandate to federal data centres to moderate power use. According to a source speaking to Reuters, these measures are being made in...
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July 28, 2021 Elea: Rio AI City RJO1
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, Globo Comunicação e Participações and Drammen Elea Digital, Piemonte's data center holding company, announced this Wednesday (28) that they have signed a sale and purchase agreement concerning Globo's data center...
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July 13, 2021 Telmex Cancun
Telmex, a Mexican telco, has opened a new data center in Cancún, Mexico. The Company first announced that it was opening this data center in August 2020. Besides, according to El Economista, Telmex chose Cancún to access the Equinix-operated NAP of the Americas IEX in Miami via submarine cables....
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June 10, 2021 El Salvador
Following El Salvador declaring Bitcoin as legal tender, the country's president Nayib Bukele has instructed state-owned geothermal electric company, LaGeo, to create a plan to offer geothermal energy to Bitcoin mining data centers. On Twitter, Bukele announced the news, saying: "I've just...
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June 04, 2021 Scala: Campinas SVCPCP01
Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus. Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...
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May 18, 2021 ODATA Chile ST01
Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be...
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May 17, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million. The tech company...
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May 12, 2021 São Paulo
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...
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