A leader in Latin America’s sustainable data center, Scala Data Centers recently launched its first site, SPOAPA01 data center, based in Porto Alegre city, in Brazil’s southern region.
The data center facility comes with a 4.8MW of IT. The facility is said to be part of the HyperEdge family.
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SPOAPA01 data center is configured to satisfy the needs for connection as well as distributed computing.
The cost of establishing the facility
The data center, built at a cost of R$ 240 million, is designed to handle highly scalable, large volumes of data as well as processing. As a result, the facility is dedicated to Hyperscale customers, demanding huge data infrastructures.
The installation, carried out with high energy efficiency standards as well as sustainability, maintains the data center operator’s objective in enabling Latin America’s future. The facility is in line with Scala strategic investment in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
SPOAPA01 data center location
Located in Navegantes, adjacent to the Salgado Filho International Airport, SPOAPA01 data center sits in an important technology and innovation hub of Rio Grande do Sul city.
The Navegantes site is in a highly connected region and close to the Malbec System, a submarine cable. The cable will soon have a branch linking Porto Alegre to Buenos Aires.
Since the region is highly connected, it places Scala in a strategic position, with huge advantages for clients. This also would offer low-latency communication with the market in Argentina.
In line with Scala’s portfolio, HyperEdge SPOAPA01 data center is fully powered by renewable energy. The facility was designed in such a way that it operates with a power usage effectiveness, lower than 1.4. It also operates with a zero water usage effectiveness since it employs air cooling.
The sustainability goals for the construction were met by the use of Fast Deploy approach. This is Scala’s methodology of construction and proprietary design, allowing deployment in half the time unlike the traditional model.
The remedy is based on integrating prefabricated transportable modular components at the site where the facility is situated, keeping in mind an optimized Hyperscale customer experience.
The company’s engineers
With more than 400 engineers, data center, and specialist architects, across Latin America, the company’s Center of Excellence in Engineering (CoE) led the company’s pioneer project.
CoE is involved in planning as well as undertaking all construction activities and data center’s operation. It also decides on land, by designing, construction along with commissioning.
Related projects
Currently, the data center giant runs nine facilities, with four of them commissioned in 2023. Four of its data centers are in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, Tambore Campus, Barueri. The remaining facilities are located in Sao Paulo, Campinas, Porto Alegre , Sao Joao de Meriti, Curauma (Chile), and Tepotzotlan (Mexico).
Scala, since it was founded in 2020, has made investments exceeding R$ 8 billion in its Latin America endeavors. It looks to reach a 500 MW milestone of distributed capacity in five years in the four countries it seeks to operate from.
