A year after the launch of its first Columbian data center, Chilean telecommunications and IT company Grupo Gtd has bought a data center in Santiago de Chile.

Prior to the acquisition, the facility was owned by multinational department store chain Falabella, which, despite the sale, will remain on site as a customer, having signed a 20 year data center services contract.

Growing outwards

In an interview with DCD’s Latin American sister publication, Gtg’s general manager Alberto Bezanilla said the agreement represents a milestone in the company’s history, not only allowing it to strengthen the relationship with one of its biggest customers, but also enabling it to expand its cloud and hosting offerings in the region with the construction of two additional data centers in Peru and Chile.

“It will also allow us to increase our data center network and position ourselves as the only provider with three Tier III sites in Santiago, those who join our data center in Colombia and those we are building in Lima and Puerto Montt,” he said. 

The facility, built by Falabella’s subsidiary Adesa, offers 7,500 square meters (80,729 sq ft) of total floor space, of which 1,600 square meters (17,222 sq ft) is dedicated technical space, divided into four equally sized server rooms. The data center, having been granted the Uptime Institute’s Tier III certification, also reaps the benefits of Santiago de Chile’s cool, semi-arid climate by using a free cooling system.