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Central & South America

Brookfield’s LATAM investee opens $180m data centre for business

Brookfield and Digital Realty-backed Ascenty has brought online its fifth unit of the Hortolândia complex, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The facilities’ capital expenditure at full build is estimated to reach R$920 million or US$177 million. The section now opened for busines...

October 06

João Marques Lima

DigitalBridge’s subsidiary sets date for $400m Chile data centres opening

DigitalBridge-backed (NASDA: DGBR) Scala Data Centers said it will cut the ribbon on its Chilean data centre campus development in the first quarter of 2024. Located in Lampa, Santiago metropolitan area, the campus will have 120MW of total capacity with an initial delivery of 30MW. The facility is being developed to support a hyperscale client. This is in line with the c...

October 04

João Marques Lima

Mexico bulks up on Big Tech cloud money with Oracle

US public cloud giant Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) said it is growing its investment in Mexico as the country continues to enjoy a positive cash flow of foreign capital. As part of the expansion, the Big Tech group has entered into an agreement with Teléfonos de México (TELMEX) to jointly offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services to customers across the country. Under th...

October 03

João Marques Lima

Zayo plans to link Brazil to world’s financial centres

Communications infrastructure platform Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. said it will deploy low-latency routes into São Paulo, Brazil. The group’s expansion into São Paulo has been designed to facilitate high-frequency trading for financial services customers, allowing trading participants direct access to trade execution and market data across multiple asset classes in this k...

September 28

João Marques Lima