April 17, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
ManageEngine is reportedly considering establishing a data center in Brazil. It plans to have the facility operational by either late this year or early next, near its Santa Catarina or São Paulo offices. According to the company, regulatory barriers and import tax mean that a lack of local data...
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April 14, 2023 Colombia
I-Squared Capital, a global infrastructure investment group, has bought two data centers in Colombia from the Colombian telecoms operator UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. The data centers were formerly owned by UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones. I-Squared Capital will now have a larger footprint in Latin...
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April 13, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Cirion has outlined its plans to develop three data centers in Chile, Peru and Brazil in 2023, as it continues its growth in Latin America. Specifically, the three facilities will be located in Santiago's Quilicura district, Macropolis in Lurín in Peru, and Cotia in São Paulo. Together the three...
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April 12, 2023 Peru
Optical Networks has announced that it is rebranding as Win Empresas. This pursuit of a commercial restructuring, is aimed at bolstering its presence in the corporate telecoms market through enhancing association with Win, its telecoms arm. Further to this, it restated its intentions to open two...
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March 27, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
In Campo Grande, western Brazil, a Zeittec-built modular data center has been launched. Spanning 72 sqm (775 sq ft) of usable space, with an area of 340 sqm (3,659 sq ft), the facility, for the Public Ministry of Mato Grosso, will provide the infrastructure for the daily work of around 2,500...
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March 20, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Eveo has announced that its new data center in the state of Paraná has gone live. Named PR1, this new facility is located in Curitiba, Brazil. Specifics regarding the capacity and size of the facility are yet to be shared. That being said, the company said that it had been built to Tier III...
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March 10, 2023 South America
As part of Bolivia's digital transformation strategy, the government has announced plans for a 140mn-boliviano (US$19.7mn) data center in El Alto city. The project will see an initial investment of 772,000 bolivianos.The development was announced by President Luis Arce this week, who called the...
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February 27, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais S.A. (CEMIG), a Brazilian energy company, has sold its share of the local data center corporation Ativas to Sonda, a Chilean IT company, which now owns the majority of the company. In a recent announcement, CEMIG stated that a share purchase contract had been...
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February 07, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
GlobeNet subsidiary V.tal, a Brazilian fiber company, has opened a brand-new Edge data center in Fortaleza. The facility, dubbed the 'Big Lobster,' will launch with a 4MW capacity over four data halls that can house a total of 400 racks. The innovative data center is connected to the company's...
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January 31, 2023 Brazil / Brasil
Soluti is launching a new data center, it has announced, to be located in Goiânia, Brazil. This announcement comes after the company completed the installation of the first Tier III quality data center in the Midwest Region of Brazil. Soluti Thus far, further specifications have not yet been...
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January 10, 2023 São Paulo
Zeittec is building a new facility for the Santos Port Authority (SPA), in São Paulo, following the signing of a construction contract. Work is due to commence in January, with projections that works will be completed in mid-2023.The facility is part of a wider digitalization project of Porto de...
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December 16, 2022 Brazil / Brasil
V.tal has announced that it's planning a new facility in Porto Alegre after acquiring a building in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. While no details related to financial terms, location, building size, or timelines were shared, the company, a Brazilian fiber firm part of telco GlobeNet, in a...
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November 28, 2022 Brazil / Brasil
Zeittec plans to develop a new data center for the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitoria, Espirito Santo. The Brazilian firm plans to develop the facility in seven months. The first phase will see Zeittec renovate UFES to allow it to receive servers and all needed data center...
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October 17, 2022 Argentina
Argentina's state-owned utility YPF Luz has entered the crypto mining space, striking up a partnership with a currently unnamed international mining company. Through the partnership, the renewable energy arm of YPF, has been piloting a 1 megawatt (MW) operation in n the Loma Campana area,...
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October 12, 2022 HostDime Colombia
HostDime has announced the launch of its new data center in Bogota, Colombia. The CEO of HostDime, Manny Vivar, announced and posted a comment on LinkedIn about the development. He said: "As the sun settles tonight, we reflect with gratitude all the hard work our HostDime Colombia 🇨🇴 familia has...
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September 19, 2022 Brazil / Brasil
Brazilian telco Um Telecom has announced that it is investing R$40 million (US$7.6m) in a new data center in Recife in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. The facility, which is expected to achieve Tier III certification, will be based at the Technological Park of Electronics and Associated...
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August 26, 2022 Scala: SGRUTB01 Tamboré
Scala Data Centers has announced the launch of its SP4 data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. SP4 is located on the company’s Tambore data center campus in the Barueri area of Sao Paulo. The company told BNAmericas that the data center is at its first stage and will provide up to 6MW of IT power. The...
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May 16, 2022 Peru
Optical Networks has announced that it is to develop two additional data centers in Lima, in response to the growing demand for business services. The first of the two is already under construction and, according to the company, will be operational by the end of 2022. Speaking to BNAmericas,...
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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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