April 12, 2024 Chile
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...
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March 15, 2024 Argentina
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...
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December 26, 2023 Colombia
Colombia’s ICT Ministry MinTIC has confirmed that the country's 5G spectrum auction raised about $380 million, falling short of the expected $500 million. Claro, Partners Telecom Colombia (WOM), and Union Temporal Colombia Móvil-Telefónica all secured 5G licenses in the auction, which lasted nine...
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November 13, 2023 South America
Digicel has confirmed its plans to deactivate its 2G network in Trinidad and Tobago on March 31, 2024, as it intends to focus strictly on its 3G, 4G, and 4G LTE services. Operators have also reportedly designed technical solutions to eliminate 2G and 3G-only devices. Reyanne Sobers, general...
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October 31, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Cirion Technologies has expanded its SAO1 data center campus in São Paulo with a new data center building spanning 3,600 square meters, increasing its capacity by 50 percent. The two data center facilities in Cotia, São Paulo, share a 20MW power substation, are carrier-neutral, and have received...
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October 19, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Teccloud recently expanded the installed capacity at its data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil, through a R$2 million investment. The Brazilian firm awarded the design certification to GetNet, both businesses being a part of the Correa da Silva group. Teccloud did not state the capacity of its two...
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October 10, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian telecoms regulator Anatel (Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes) has revealed plans to hasten the shutdown of its 2G and 3G networks. The company plans to issue subsidies to customers from equipment vendors to end users to speed up the transition from old 2G and 3G networks into the 4G...
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October 06, 2023 Peru
Peruvian technology services company Canvia has launched a third data center in San Isidro, Lima, aligning with its plan to grow 18% this year. This new campus, designed to meet local needs in the short term and international demand in the long run, guarantees a 99.98% annual availability....
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September 08, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
V.tal, a Brazilian data center company, revealed plans for a new facility in Porto Alegre. The data center will accommodate 400 racks of servers in two data halls spanning 75,350 square feet. This year is anticipated to be the start of construction for an H2 2024 completion date. The company...
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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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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 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 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 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 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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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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