Scala Data Centers launches HyperEdge data centre in Brazil
Scala Data Centers announce that it has officially launched its new HyperEdge data centre in Brazil.
Based in Porto Alegre city, close to the technology hub in the city of Rio Grande do Sul, the facility has been named SPOAPA01 and has an IT capacity of 4.8MW. It is part of the company’s HyperEdge facilities and is designed to meet demand for connection and distributed computing.
The new facility was built with a US$48m investment and the data centre will be used primarily by hyperscale customers with large volumes of data and processing.
Advancing the hyperscale
Scala Data Centers is a leading Latin American platform of sustainable data centres in the hyperscale market. Headquartered in Brazil, it was founded to meet and exceed the growing demand for digital access across Latin America. The company prides itself on flexibility and innovation as it provides colocation services to hyperscale clients, cloud-based software and service providers, in addition to large enterprises.
“We are excited about the inauguration of this new data centre, which occupies a strategic position close to data centres that serve telecom operators,” says Marcos Peigo, CEO and co-founder of Scala Data Centers.
“Despite the obsolete architecture, density and capacity compared to Hyperscale customer standards, these other sites in the region represent relevant points of connection and traffic interest. With this site now in operation, our customers finally have the alternative of a global standard data centre to serve the region's growing market, including support for the Buenos Aires region, in Argentina.”
With the company only being founded in 2020, it currently has nine data centres in operation. Four are located in São Paulo, Brazil, with the others distributed across São Paulo, Campinas (São Paulo state, Brazil), São João de Meriti (Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil), Curauma (Chile) and Tepotzotlán (Mexico).
As reported by Data Centre Dynamics, the company issued US$215m in green debenture in November 2023.
A sustainability-led approach
SPOAPA01 is being powered by 100% renewable energy, with the building designed to operate with a power usage effectiveness of less than 1.4. In addition, it has a water usage effectiveness (WUE) of zero, given that it uses closed circuit and air cooling.
This new project also meets sustainability goals via the FastDeploy approach, which is the company’s design and construction methodology allowing deployment in up to 50% less time when compared to the traditional model. This solution is also based on prefabricated and transportable modular components integrated into the buildings where the data centre is located. With this in mind, the goal is to provide an optimised experience for hyperscale customers.
Designed with the highest standards of energy efficiency and sustainability, Scale Data Centers states that the installation actualises its investment in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In addition, it reinforces the company's purpose in enabling the future of Latin America, providing low-latency communication within the Argentine market in particular.
The strategic choice of location is based not only on its proximity to data centres in a highly connected region, but also on the prospect of becoming a connection point for the Malbec submarine cable. This 1,550-mile cable already links São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires. The planned branch aims to directly connect Porto Alegre to Buenos Aires to solidify the position of the city as a connectivity hub.
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