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IDB provides $100 million loan to improve connectivity in Argentina

The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a digital infrastructure loan of $100 million repayable in 25 years to improve connectivity in Argentina. With the loan, the development of digital connectivity in remote areas will become a reality. The loan will also be used to improve the cap...

October 15, 2021

Argentina

Equinix opens a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo, Brazil

Equinix has announced the opening of its new hyperscale data center facility in São Paulo, Brazil, called SP5x. The new facility is located next to Equinix’s SP3 IBX data center in Santana de Parnaíba. The facility has 5MW of capacity in its first phase. It is also expected to have a total cap...

October 06, 2021

Equinix Sao Paulo SP5x

Ava Telecom is deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo

Brazilian operator Ava Telecom has started deploying Edge data centers in São Paulo, Brazil. The company provided little information about what it is doing. It didn’t reveal the number of sites it is building, or how much it is planning to invest in deploying the Edge data centers. However, Mu...

October 01, 2021

Brazil / Brasil

Globenet starts work on second data center in Barranquilla

Just two weeks after announcing its new Edge data center in Fortaleza, Brazil, Globenet has announced the construction of a new Edge data center in Barranquilla, as it continues to expand to meet demand. By the end of 2022, the company plans to have a total of five Edge data center locations i...

September 21, 2021

Tecto: Barranquilla 1

Brazilian government clamps down on federal data centers over energy usage, amid drought

The Brazilian government is clamping down on excessive energy use amid a drought across the country. As part of this, the government is introducing measures such as a mandate to federal data centres to moderate power use. According to a source speaking to Reuters, these measures are being made...

August 30, 2021

Brazil / Brasil

Piemonte Holding announces agreement to purchase Globo's data center in Rio de Janeiro

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The financial group Piemonte Holding, Globo Comunicação e Participações and Drammen Elea Digital, Piemonte's data center holding company, announced this Wednesday (28) that they have signed a sale and purchase agreement concerning Globo's data cent...

July 28, 2021

Elea: Rio AI City RJO1

Scala Data Centers acquires Algar Tech data center

Scala has announced its acquisition of Algar Tech’s data center and colocation operations in Capinas near São Paulo for $183 million. The company plans to modernize and expand the Tier III building and use it as a base for a new data center campus.Once the facility, which utilizes photovoltaic...

June 04, 2021

Scala: Campinas SVCPCP01

Odata To Build a $217 Million Data Center In Chile

Odata has announced that it is planning to build its first data center in Chile. This new data center will sit on a 6-hectare site, and it will house over 40,000 square meters of data center buildings. Upon completion, the data center will have a capacity of 28MW. Odata also says it will be in...

May 18, 2021

ODATA Chile ST01

Google buys 30 hectares to build data center in Uruguay

Google has announced that, through its subsidiary, Eleanor Applications SRL, it has acquired 30 hectares of land in Canelones, Uruguay, to build a data center. According to El Observador, the company may have spent $818,000 on the plot, with a view to invest up to $100 million.The tech compan...

May 17, 2021

Google Canelones Uruguay

Oracle opens second cloud region in São Paulo, Brazil

Oracle just announced the new opening of its new Vinhedo Cloud region in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This follows the announcement of the launch of its Sao Paulo cloud region last year. The new cloud region is now its second cloud region in Brazil and its 30th one worldwide. Besides, the c...

May 12, 2021

São Paulo

EdgeConneX Announces Second Data Center in Santiago Chile

EdgeConneX has added its 33rd data center market. The company has announced its new Santiago (SCL01) facility with 7MWs of data center capacity. As part of the launch, Oracle was identified as their anchor customer in the facility. The company is planning to build SCL02 on its Santiago campus,...

January 21, 2021

Edgeconnex Santiago SCL01

Ascenty opens second data center in Vinhedo

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, added yet another data center to its network. Located at the company’s mega campus in the town of Vinhedo, the facility is expected to start operations in the second half of 2020. The company invested BRL 200 millio...

January 08, 2020

Ascenty Vinhedo 2

Ascenty opens its 14th data center in Brazil and largest in Latin America

Ascenty, the leading data center company focused on the Latin American market, opened the largest data center in Latin America in the town of Vinhedo, Brazil. The audacious project cost BRL 500 million for its first phase of construction, and features 40,000 sqm in total area and 40 MVA power ...

October 21, 2019

Ascenty Vinhedo 1

Ascenty Announced the Launch of a New Data Center in Paulínia

Ascenty has announced it has launched it's new 16 MVA data center in Paulínia outside of São Paulo.Ascenty will have 16 data centres in operation in Brazil by the end of the year, and now has 17 data centres in operation and construction, interconnected by 4,500 km of proprietary fibre optic ...

June 06, 2019

Ascenty Paulinia

CyrusOne Helps Launch ODATA’s First Data Center in Colombia (PR)

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), a premier global data center REIT, today announced that it has helped ODATA construct and launch the company’s first data center in Bogotá, Colombia. ODATA’s new data center, DC BG01, is the second ODATA data center, the first outside Brazil af...

May 28, 2019

ODATA BG01

AngoNAP Fortaleza Data Center Opened (PR)

Angola Cables announced the opening of its carrier neutral AngoNAP data center in Fortaleza, Brasil earlier today. The Tier III designed data center will cater for the growing demand in content data transmission in the Southern hemisphere. The facility is a primary interconnection point for ...

April 16, 2019

AngoNAP Fortaleza

Google Acquired 80 MW of Solar Power for Santiago Data Center

Google purchased 80MW of electrical power from Acciona Energy. The power will come from a 1.5 million sqm solar campus built in a piece of land measuring 280 hectares in the Atacama Desert, west of the Andes mountains and 645Km north of capital Santiago. Solar energy will be used to power both...

September 09, 2018

Google Quilicura (Santiago) Chile

Seaborn Networks Selects EdgeConneX Buenos Aires as a POP for it's ARBR Submarine Cable

This is a big win for EdgeConneX! EdgeConneX, specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the network, today announces that Seaborn Networks (“Seaborn”), a leading developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems, has selected its Buenos Aires Edge Data Center ...

July 02, 2018

EdgeConnex Buenos Aires

IBM opens 4th Data Center in Hortolândia

IBM Brazil opens its 4th Data Center at Hortolândia's service center. The expansion increases by 30% the company's capacity to provide outsourcing services in the country and is a result of part of the investment of R $ 40 million (US $ 17.4 million) made last year. The new Data Center has 800...

August 15, 2013

IBM Brasil Hortolândia

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