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Cerebras Signs MoU for 100MW Facility in Guyana

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 wit...

November 12, 2025

South America

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

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 la...

November 07, 2025

Brazil / Brasil

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

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 ...

October 04, 2025

Brazil / Brasil

X8 Cloud Plans AI Data Center in 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 Feli...

October 03, 2025

Paraguay

Starlink Expands Ground Infrastructure in 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....

September 05, 2025

Chile

Antel Plans Two New Data Centers

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 ...

August 01, 2025

Uruguay

Data center Inaugurated at Port of Imbituba, Brazil

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 estima...

June 23, 2025

Brazil / Brasil

Enegix to Build 100MW Crypto Facility in Piauí

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 ...

June 20, 2025

Brazil / Brasil

TECfusions to Develop Data Center Campus in Puente Alto, 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...

June 06, 2025

Chile

SUR Holdings acquires debt-ridden WOM

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, w...

January 17, 2025

Colombia

V.tal launches Tecto data center subsidiary

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 ev...

October 23, 2024

Brazil / Brasil

Grupo ClickIP launches data center in Manaus

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....

August 31, 2024

Brazil / Brasil

Major power outage across Venezuela brings country offline

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 dat...

August 30, 2024

Venezuela

Hive plans 100MW hydroelectric cryptomine data center in 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...

July 22, 2024

Paraguay

América Móvil to increase stake in ClaroVTR to 91 percent

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 Libert...

June 26, 2024

Chile

Cayman Islands reveals plans for new subsea cable

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 co...

June 03, 2024

Colombia

Scala conducts successful HVO test

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 r...

May 23, 2024

Brazil / Brasil

Eviden to provide upgrade to supercomputer in Brazil

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 lo...

April 12, 2024

Brazil / Brasil

Catholic University of Chile launches new supercomputer

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile) has installed the new Geryon 3 supercomputer in a 36 sqm (387 sq ft) room at the UC Institute of Astrophysics in Santiago. "To complement our observational capabilities, we will need a strong group of theorists who can help interpret the ...

April 12, 2024

Chile

Edenor completes cloud migration to AWS and Microsoft

Argentinian electricity company Edenor announced that its data architecture is now cloud-based, with Edenor using both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud platforms. “It's a foundational project because it allows us to generate the bases to be a data-driven company and to be...

March 15, 2024

Argentina

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