The company will invest approx 400 million US dollars in the first phase of three campuses in the Latin American country. Strategically located, they will have a combined capacity of over 200 MW, equivalent to more than three times the capacity currently available in the country.
SAO PAULO, October 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Scala Data Centers, Latin America’s leading sustainable data center platform in the Hyperscale market, received the environmental license to build the largest data center campus in Chile. Located in Lampa, Santiago metropolitan area, the campus will have 120 MW of total capacity and anticipates an initial supply of 30 MW. Scheduled to begin operations in the first quarter of 2024, the new Scala data center will be born to support a Hyperscale customer.
Lampa Campus: in Chile the largest to be built in the country
IN September 2022, the company began construction of its first data center campus in the municipality of Curauma, Valparaíso area, with a total capacity of 45 MW. The first building is expected to be completed in March 2023 and is anchored in a long-term contract with a Hyperscale customer. The company has also launched the executive project of its third data center in the country, in Santiagowith a total capacity of 80 MW, starting with the installation of a FastDeploy building, a proprietary Scala design and construction methodology that allows deploying data centers in up to 50% less time compared to the traditional model.
Scala’s three campuses in Chile will result in initial investments of approx 400 million US dollars and will provide a combined capacity of over 200 MW, contributing to the sustainable development of the country. All data centers will use 100% renewable and certified energy, in line with the company’s portfolio, and are expected to generate around 1,000 direct and indirect jobs in the country. The locally recruited operational team will undergo additional technical training at the company’s Training Center in São Paulo, Brazil. In addition to the technical scope, these new employees will benefit from a cultural exchange with Scala’s Brazilian team.
In addition to the two campuses in Santiago, the choice of the location of Curauma is strategic, as it is in the Valparaíso region where the Humboldt submarine cable will be launched. With about 15 thousand kilometers of fiber, Humboldt connects, for the first time, Latin America to Asia-Pacific The region. “The construction of a data center near the arrival point of the submarine cables will guarantee unprecedented scale and quality of connection between Latin America, Asia and Oceania, contributing massively to enabling the digital infrastructure of the region,” explains Marcos Peigo, CEO of Scala. “And in a scenario in which 5G accelerates the deployment of various services and applications that use large volumes of data and require low latency, such as the metaverse, the Internet of Things (IoT), telemedicine, autonomous cars, among others, is something even more expressive,” adds the executive.
Scala projects will be led by the company’s Center of Engineering Excellence (CoE), an unprecedented initiative in this segment. With more than 150 engineers, the CoE is responsible for all activities related to the construction of a data center, from land selection, planning, design, construction and commissioning, which accelerates delivery to customers and brings benefits of scale, control and more. project visibility.
According to IDC, organizations’ spending on IT infrastructure in Chile will grow by 12% between 2021 and 2024, driven, among other things, by the data center ecosystem. In the same period, the consultancy predicts an increase in cloud spending of around 34.6%. This scenario is due to the advent of 5G, the digital transformation in the mining industry, the acceleration of connectivity and the advancement of the transmission market.
About Scala Datacenters
Scala Data Centers is Latin America’s leading sustainable data center platform in the hyperscale market. Headquartered in Brazil and founded by DigitalBridge, it was developed to meet and exceed the growing demand for digital access to Latin America. Scala has a highly qualified team of over 500 professionals and applies a flexible and innovative approach to deliver exceptional quality colocation services to high-scale customers, cloud-based software and service providers, and large enterprises. We customize the latest solutions for each customer in building the latest generation data centers with high availability, best energy efficiency rates and superior density. All of this is linked to sustainability best practices guided by our ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) program. For more information, visit www.scaladatacenters.com.
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