The company behind video game platform Roblox has broken ground on a data center in São Paulo, Brazil.

The eponymous company announced the new infrastructure development on its DevForum site, writing: "You asked. We listened. Brazil servers are coming to São Paulo in early 2026!"

The post added that the new data center will "enhance the Roblox experience for millions of users in Brazil, providing improved performance and reduced latency nationwide."

Jerret West, chief marketing officer and head of international expansion at Roblox, said in a statement: “We’re excited to launch our new data center in Brazil, our most advanced yet. With cutting-edge hardware, we’re boosting performance and reliability for our Brazilian players and preparing to welcome millions more. Brazil is incredibly important to us, and we’re dedicated to building a more immersive and responsive platform for users here and beyond.”

Details about the data center itself are sparse, but comments under the DevForum post suggest that Roblox has been testing servers in Brazil since 2024, while "breaking ground" and the long lead time suggest this will be a new facility.

DCD has reached out to Roblox for further information.

Roblox claims to have 27 data centers, the majority of which are in the US, and others are spread out globally. According to the company's 2024 Annual Report, "The majority of services operated by the Roblox Cloud are hosted in Roblox-managed data centers. For some of our high-speed databases, scalable object storage, and message queuing services we leverage Amazon Web Services."

The report goes on to note: "Nearly all of the servers tasked with simulating the virtual environment and optimizing assets for Roblox Clients are owned by Roblox and operate from data centers and regional Edge data centers widely distributed across 23 cities in North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. As of December 31, 2024, the Roblox Cloud uses over 140,000 servers."

The various data centers are linked through a high-performance dedicated backbone network, bypassing the public Internet.