Latin American data center firm Ascenty has submitted an environmental impact review for a new data center in Chile.
The Data Hall Quilicura project plans to convert industrial warehouses into data centers in Quilicura, near Santiago, Chile.
According to details submitted to the Chilian Environmental Impact Review System, the project will span a land area of 54,998 sqm (591,993 sq ft), with 24,757 sqm (266,482 sq ft) allocated for buildings. It will include 30 emergency generators, an oil storage tank, six data rooms, 21 air conditioning chillers, storage warehouses, and fire control tanks. The total cost of the project is estimated at $140 million.
Construction of the data center is expected to begin in September 2025 and take approximately 18 months to complete. It will be constructed in a single phase and will be operational for at least 27 years.
The company has two operational data centers in Chile, both in Santiago, with a third under construction. Its first Santiago data center was launched in 2020. Spanning 7,000 sqm (75,350 sq ft), it offers 10MW in total power and space for 1,100 racks.
The company launched Santiago 2 in August 2022. Located in the Quilicura district of the capital, the facility covers an area of 22,000 sqm (236,800 sq ft), has 16MW of IT load, and can accommodate up to 1,500 racks.
Ascenty announced plans for a third facility in the Chilean capital in November 2022. Santiago 3 will again offer 16MW across 22,000 sqm. The data center is currently under construction.
In October 2023, Ascenty closed a new financing deal to fund its Chilean operations. The company secured $170 million in financing, which will be used to repay in full certain existing financings and capital expenditures around its Chilean operations, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Earlier in the same year, the company secured more than $1 billion in financing to fuel its Brazilian expansion efforts.
Ascenty, which is owned by Digital Realty and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, has 34 data centers in operation and/or under construction in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia.
