Snapshot: Ascenty’s pipeline of datacenter projects

Brazil’s Ascenty, the largest colocation datacenter company in Latin America, has various projects under development in the region, with 23 sites already in operation and 11 in progress.

The company, owned by Digital Realty and Brookfield, last month announced US$1bn in funding with two five-year financial instruments to invest in the construction and expansion of datacenters in the region. 

The funding for the loan facility and debenture line was raised mostly from Brazilian institutions, but Ascenty is looking to carry out similar operations in Mexico, Chile and Colombia.

Overall, the Brazilian datacenter market is expected to see investments of US$4.43bn by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 8.3% in 2022-28, according to estimates by research firm Aritzon, and Ascenty will be a major contributor.

In addition to cloud growth, the region is also seeing rising investments due to Brazil’s data protection legislation, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD), which has brought in various regulations on the storage of data generated in the country.

Most of Ascenty’s sites are located in the São Paulo metropolitan area, which is Latin America’s biggest datacenter hub. 

In the area it hosts the public cloud services of Google (one of Google’s three availability zones in Brazil, at Ascenty’s SP03 datacenter), IBM Cloud (both of IBM’s two datacenters, at Ascenty’s Jundiaí 1 and Vinhedo 2 sites), Microsoft Azure (one of two, at Ascenty's Campinas datacenter), and Oracle Cloud (one of two, at the Vinhedo 2 datacenter).

In addition to São Paulo state, Ascenty has datacenters in Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza, while outside Brazil it also has active sites in Chile and Mexico.

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Ascenty reports a total area of 460,000m2 for its datacenters, including those under development, all of which add up to 533MW in combined power. Ascenty's controller, Digital Realty, reported over 127MW in capacity in use for Ascenty’s Latin American datacenters as of end-2022.

The following is an updated list of the company’s projects by country.

BRAZIL

Number of active sites: 19 

Main campus: Hortolândia and Sumaré

Total projected capacity of active sites: 254MW

Total projected capacity of sites under development: 131MW

Under development:

- Hortolândia SP06 (São Paulo state, 31MW projected capacity)

- São Paulo SP04 (São Paulo state, 9MW)

- São Paulo SP05 (São Paulo, 14MW)

- São Paulo SP06 (São Paulo, 20MW)

- Sumaré SP03 (São Paulo state, 20MW)

- Sumaré SP04 (Sâo Paulo, 17MW)

- Sumaré SP05 (São Paulo, 20MW).

MEXICO

Number of active sites: 2

Main campus: Querétaro

Total projected capacity of active sites: 52MW

Total projected capacity of sites under development: 21MW

Under development:

- Querétaro 03 (Querétaro state, 21MW)

CHILE

Number of active sites: 2

Main campus: Santiago

Total projected capacity of active sites: 36MW

Total projected capacity of sites under development: 15MW

Under development:

- Santiago 03 (metropolitan Santiago, 15MW)

COLOMBIA

Number of active sites: 0

Main campus: Bogotá

Under development:

- Bogotá 01 (metropolitan Bogotá, 12MW)

- Bogotá 02 (metropolitan Bogotá, 12MW)

SCHEDULE

Of the new datacenters, has Ascenty started construction of São Paulo SP05 and Bogotá 01, both of which are expected to begin operations this year, while São Paulo SP 06, Santiago 03 and Bogotá 02 are scheduled to open in 2024. 

The company has not provided updates on the remaining sites under development.