April 25, 2023 Scala Data Centers
Scala's new data center in Rio de Janeiro for Scala Data Center is now operational. The Brazilian data center has a 7.2MW hyperscale capacity and only one anchor tenant at the moment. The So Joo do Meriti campus, where the SGIGSM01 facility is situated, will have 55MW of IT capacity when fully...
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March 29, 2023 KIO Data Centers
Kio, a Latin American provider of data centers, has purchased a facility in Colombia. This week, the business controlled by I Squared Capital said that it had purchased a property in the nation's capital, Bogota. The details of the agreement and the name of the company that owned it weren't...
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March 29, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
The introduction of Tesla in Mexico and the pursuit of automation will exert pressure not just on the automobile sector but also on Data Centers and telecom networks. The electrification of automobiles will need the construction of a higher number of chargers. With the use of data centers,...
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March 27, 2023 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Mexico's data center industry is poised to receive a significant boost, with the Mexican Association of Data Centers (MEXDC) announcing an $8 billion investment from major companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Equinix. The investment is expected to create over 20,000 jobs in the next few years and...
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March 16, 2023 Scala Data Centers
Robotic dogs are being tested by Brazilian data center operator Scala for fire safety assessments. While Scala doesn't specify the brand or manufacturer, the robot appears to be a Go1 from the Chinese company Unitree. The Go1 is a little smaller than some other robot dogs, at around 30 cm tall...
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March 15, 2023 Scala Data Centers
Mark Sanchez has been appointed as Scala Data Centers' new Senior Director of Data Center Deployment. Scala Data Centers is the top Latin American platform for environmentally friendly data centers in the hyperscale market. After five years managing teams and implementing data centers on five...
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February 24, 2023 KIO Data Centers
Kio Networks, a Mexican data center company, is developing a third data center in Querétaro. The corporation revealed this week that it had purchased 261,100 square feet of land in Querétaro for the development of a new data center. QRO3 will be the company's third plant in the region, and its...
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February 18, 2023 KIO Data Centers
A new data center for Kio Networks has begun construction in Paterna, a city in the Valencia region of Spain. This Thursday, the Valencian Generalitat revealed that construction on a new facility at the Paterna Tactical Park had started. The project will allegedly get $53.5 million from the...
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December 22, 2022 Scala Data Centers
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's...
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November 14, 2022 Scala Data Centers
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...
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November 11, 2022 KIO Data Centers
Kio Networks has announced the acquisition of a new data center campus in the greater Mexico City. The acquired data center is called KIO MEX6, which has a capacity of up to 20MW across 50,000 sqm. The facility is also capable of hosting telecom and critical IT services. Kio Networks also...
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October 14, 2022 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Layer 9 Data Centers recently announced that it has broken ground on its 96MW data center campus in Guanajuato, Mexico. Those within the industry have outlined that it is likely this project is part of Project Falcon, a 64MW data center campus currently in progress in the Baijo Region announced...
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October 11, 2022 Scala Data Centers
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...
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October 10, 2022 Scala Data Centers
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...
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July 04, 2022 Scala Data Centers
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...
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June 23, 2022 Mexico City / Ciudad de México
Layer 9 Data Centers has completed a Series A investment round. The company is also planning to develop a 64MW data center in Mexico from the fund raised. However, it didn’t reveal the amount it raised. The Series A investment was led by a consortium of top-shots in the industry. Layer 9 DC was...
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December 24, 2021 Scala Data Centers
Scala Data Centers has broken ground on two new hyperscale facilities in Brazil. Scala DC was formed in 2020 by DigitalBridge for the sole purpose of developing hyperscale data centers in South America. Scala Data Centers will be developing the SP4 and SP5 hyperscale facilities in Barueri, Sao...
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November 19, 2021 Scala Data Centers
Scala Data Centers has announced its partnership with Maxihost, with the global bare metal cloud provider choosing Scala to help it expand the capacity of its MH1 São Paulo facility. According to Guilherme Soubihe Alberto, CEO of Maxihost, the company's MH1 facility is reaching capacity, and the...
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August 16, 2021 Scala Data Centers
2021 has been an eventful year in the data center industry as we’ve seen some major merger and acquisition activities as these firms look to expand their capacities. We are going to shine the spotlight on the top five merger and acquisition activities in Q2 of 2021. We’ll be able to see which...
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August 04, 2021 KIO Data Centers
I Squared Capital is to acquire KIO Networks through its ISQ Growth Markets Infrastructure Fund and ISQ Global Infrastructure Fund III. None of these companies disclosed the terms of the deal. KIO Networks is the biggest data center firm in Mexico. It operates 11 core data center campuses across...
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