https://aidatacenterindex.com/continents/south-america/feed/ Chronological feed for South America using the best public timeline year available for each tracked facility. https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-peru-ai-cloud-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-peru-ai-cloud-region.html Lima, Lima, Peru | Announced | 40 MW — Amazon Web Services announced a new AWS region in Lima, Peru in 2024, slated for launch in 2025-2026. The Peru region would be AWS's second in South America after São Paulo and would serve the Andean market of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and no https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/equinix-sp7-sao-paulo-brazil.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/equinix-sp7-sao-paulo-brazil.html São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Planned | 14 MW — Equinix SP7 is a new xScale™ (hyperscale) data center scheduled to open in São Paulo, Brazil, in Q4 2026. Part of a global joint venture with GIC, the facility is designed to provide 14.4 megawatts (MW) of dedicated IT load to hyperscale cl https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/elea-rio-ai-city-brazil.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/elea-rio-ai-city-brazil.html Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Under Construction | 1.5 GW — Elea Data Centers describes Rio AI City as a digital ecosystem in Rio de Janeiro's Olympic Park region for AI and cloud workloads across Latin America. Elea's official project page says the first phase starts with 1.5 GW of certified renewa https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-argentina-ai-cloud-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-argentina-ai-cloud-region.html Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Planned | 50 MW — Microsoft announced a $1.7 billion investment in Argentina's AI and cloud infrastructure in 2024, marking one of the largest foreign technology investments in the country's history. The investment includes a new Azure cloud region serving A https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-chile-central-ai-infrastructure.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-chile-central-ai-infrastructure.html Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile | Operational | 50 MW — Launched in June 2025, the "Chile Central" region is Microsoft's first data center region in Chile and a major hub for the Southern Cone. Part of the "Transforma Chile" initiative, the region consists of three independent Availability Zones https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scala-ai-city-eldorado-do-sul-brazil.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/scala-ai-city-eldorado-do-sul-brazil.html Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | Planned | 4.8 GW — Scala AI City is a planned gigawatt-scale data-center campus in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Scala announced the project with the Rio Grande do Sul government in 2024, describing a first phase of 54 MW and potential full development https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-brazil-sao-paulo-expansion.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-brazil-sao-paulo-expansion.html São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Operational | 500 MW — In September 2024, Microsoft announced its largest single investment in Brazil, committing R$14.7 billion ($2.7 billion USD) over three years (2024–2027) to expand its cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure. This expansion focuses https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-brazil-cloud-region-expansion.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-brazil-cloud-region-expansion.html São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | Operational | 300 MW — In September 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a 10.1 billion reais (approximately $1.8 billion USD) investment in Brazil over 10 years to expand its cloud and generative AI infrastructure. This new funding focuses on the state of S https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-colombia-bogota.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/microsoft-azure-colombia-bogota.html Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia | Operational | 80 MW — Microsoft opened its first cloud region in Colombia in 2024, anchored by a $150 million infrastructure investment — the largest single cloud infrastructure commitment in Colombian history at the time. The Bogotá region comprises multiple Av https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-argentina-buenos-aires.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-argentina-buenos-aires.html Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina | Operational | 40 MW — Google Cloud launched its Argentina region (southamerica-west2 / us-east5 subregion context) to serve Argentina's substantial digital economy, including Buenos Aires's outsized concentration of tech talent, fintech companies, and the contin https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-colombia-ai-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-colombia-ai-region.html Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia | Operational | 40 MW — Google Cloud's Bogotá region, launched in 2023, is the first major public cloud region in the Andean countries of South America (serving Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia). The region offers a low-latency option for Colombian https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-chile-santiago-region.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/google-cloud-chile-santiago-region.html Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile | Operational | 50 MW — Google Cloud launched its Chile region (southamerica-west1) in Santiago in April 2021, expanding its South American infrastructure beyond the existing São Paulo region in Brazil. The Santiago region was Google's first cloud region in South https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/odata-bg03-bogota-ai-campus-colombia.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/odata-bg03-bogota-ai-campus-colombia.html Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia | Under Construction | 120 MW — ODATA's BG03, located in the Cundinamarca region near Bogotá, is set to be Colombia's largest data center with 120 MW of capacity. Part of a $1.3 billion regional expansion, the campus is specifically designed for high-density AI and hypers https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-santiago-ai-region-chile.html https://aidatacenterindex.com/datacenters/aws-santiago-ai-region-chile.html Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile | Planned | 100 MW — In May 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a $4 billion investment to launch a new infrastructure region in Santiago, Chile. Scheduled to become operational in the second half of 2026, the region will consist of three Availability Zon