Brazil’s Scala Data Centers has launched the second phase of its data center campus in São Paulo.
“It is with great joy that we share the success of the event marking the Launch of the second expansion phase of the Tamboré Campus!” the company posted on LinkedIn last week.
The second phase includes the operation of two new buildings, SGRUTB08 and SGRUTB12, and the construction of three more (SGRUTB09, SGRUTB10, and SGRUTB67) totaling 158 MW of IT and a committed investment of R$ 6.2 billion (US$1.3bn).
Combined with the amount already invested in Phase 1, Scala has invested more than R$10 billion (US$1.8bn) in this campus. Anchor clients have secured for the three new buildings, expected to become operational in 2025
The campus is said to already be the largest in Latin America by capacity. Once fully built out, the campus will have 17 buildings and three substations, totaling 600MW.
During the inauguration, Marcos Peigo, CEO and co-founder of Scala, said: “The demand for data centers is growing exponentially with artificial intelligence, which not only allows us to serve the local market, but also to export solutions globally.”
Governor Tarcísio de Freitas added: “The wealth of nations is no longer in metals or industry, but in data and the knowledge economy. São Paulo has become a pole of attraction for this new economy.”
Founded in 2020 after DigitalBridge acquired facilities from Brazilian IT firm UOL Diveo, Scala has invested around $1.6bn in hyperscale data centers across Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia. The company expects its data center portfolio to reach 500MW over the next five years.
2023 saw Scala launch data centers in Curauma, Chile, as well as São Paulo, Porto Alegre, and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The company said it has construction projects underway in Tamboré Campus (São Paulo, Brazil), Porto Alegre city (Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil), Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil), and Lampa (Chile), as well as advanced projects to implement other data centers in Mexico and Colombia
Versions of this story appeared on our Spanish and Brazilian editions.
