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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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August 30, 2024 Venezuela
A huge power outage in Venezuela has brought a significant portion of the country offline and Minister of Communications and Information, Freddy Ñañez, claimed that the outage was due to intentional sabotage. A similar, smaller outage was blamed on saboteurs three days ago. "Live network data...
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July 22, 2024 Paraguay
Canadian cryptomining firm Hive Digital Technologies this week has announced plans to build a 100MW hydroelectricity-powered cryptomine data center in Paraguay. Hive said it will offer its “expertise in grid balancing and demand response” to support continued industrial development in Paraguay,...
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June 26, 2024 Chile
América Móvil has announced plans to increase its stake in Chilean telco ClaroVTR from from the 50 percent which was acquired as part of a 50:50 joint venture (JV) with Liberty Latin America (LLA) to 91 percent.“We are excited about the prospects of ClaroVTR. Our strong partnership with Liberty...
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June 03, 2024 Colombia
The Cayman Islands government has revealed plans to deploy a new subsea cable. Ranulf Scarbrough, who leads the Cayman Islands Submarine Cable Modernisation Project for the Cayman Islands Government, presented the self-governing British Overseas Territory’s plans at the Subsea Networks EMEA...
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May 23, 2024 Brazil / Brasil
Scala Data Centers has conducted a trial of using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power its backup generators. However, the company noted the alternative fuel’s prohibitive costs meant it wasn’t adopting it more widely. “When HVO enters commercial-scale utilization, the plan is to begin...
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April 12, 2024 Brazil / Brasil
Eviden this week announced that it has signed a new $19.4 million contract with Brazil’s National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC, aka Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) to extend the compute capacity of its Santos Dumont supercomputer. “We're thrilled to continue our...
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