ELEA DATA CENTERS
The winners of DCD LATAM and
Global Awards 2024
“ In Brazil , we have the chance to run data centres in a better way that is more sustainable and humanised ”
ALESSANDRO LOMBARDI , PRESIDENT , ELEA DATA CENTERS
“ The strategy we are using is to have enough land adjacent to our existing sites to make sure that all of our data centres – or at least most of them – are expandable ,” Alessandro comments . “ We are also building energy infrastructure substations , transformers and distribution to our sites to make sure that we have some hundreds of megawatts close to our sites ready to deploy . Because that ’ s key . When the money grows so much , you need to be ready .”
He adds : “ We are investing heavily in energy infrastructure in order to be ready for 2025 and 2026 , whilst there are not as many competitors .”
São Paulo remains the largest data centre market in LATAM , with its availability increasing to 62.1 MW from 52.3 MW in Q1 2024 . However ,
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