DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - Latin America, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Mexico's Grupo Financiero Banorte partners with Hitachi Vantara of data center migration
Banorte moves from data center in Mexico City to Querétaro
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Microsoft on pace for $50bn AI investment in "global south"
Some of which will be spent on AI infrastructure
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Microsoft brings two data halls online in São Paulo, Brazil
Part of 2024 commitment to invest $2.7bn in the country
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Dutch investment company Prosus inks three-year cloud and AI agreement with AWS
Will see the two co-creating AI solutions for certain Prosus portfolio companies
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Hive Digital Technologies to launch Buzz Cloud platform in Paraguay
Launched in partnership with "leading telecom partner" in country
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Brazil launches antitrust probe into Microsoft
Another day, another investigation
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TECfusions to develop 100MW data center campus in Puente Alto, Chile
Will start with 10MW of capacity
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Amazon to invest $4bn in Chile data center region
Plans to launch region by end of 2026
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Roblox breaks ground on data center in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Set to go live in 2026
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ByteDance considers data center for TikTok in Brazil - report
Company reportedly in talks with renewable energy producer Casa dos Ventos
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Alibaba Cloud launches Mexico cloud region
Less than a year after revealing plans
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Patrizia and CenterSquare invest in Aligned Data Centers
Supports previously announced $12bn funding raise
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Banco Mercantil completes first phase of migration to Google Cloud
Saw more than 750 migrated out of Banco Mercantil's data center
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AWS launches $5bn cloud region in Mexico
AWS Mexico (Central) Region goes live
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Brazil's RNP to host IT infrastructure at Elea data center
Brazil's national academic Internet backbone opts for Elea's BSB2 facility
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BBVA completes data platform migration to AWS
Europe and Uruguay completed, works begin in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina
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Peruvian bank to invest $650m in hybrid cloud infrastructure
Partners with Microsoft and Kyndryl for IT modernization project
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OData to spend $1.3bn building two data centers in Colombia
Initial phases to be completed by end of 2026
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TMF Group selects Orange Business for centralized hybrid cloud solution
Gives company access to Microsoft Azure and AWS solutions
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Peru bank optimizes data center with Lenovo ThinkAgile system
Powered by Intel Xeon processors
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AWS to invest $1.8bn expanding Brazilian data center operations
Investment will span through 2034
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Scala Data Centers issues green debentures worth $250m
Will be used to fund completion of 36MW data center in São Paulo
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Cassava Technologies launches AI unit
Aims to bring AI to Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America
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Elea, Starlink, and Telebras work to bring connectivity back to Rio Grande do Sul following flooding
Flooding commenced May 2, efforts are ongoing
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Argentinian electricity company Edenor completes cloud migration
Company now preparing to integrate more generative artificial intelligence
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Scala Data Centers launches data center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Facility offers 4.8MW of capacity
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Claro Peru launches $50m data center in Lima, Peru
250 sqm facility ready for operations
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Liberty Networks and Gold Data to develop subsea cable connecting US and South America
And other subsea cable news