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The V.O.A project is an edge data centre development in Porto Alegre, Brazil, but it is no longer planned for the site originally announced. The initial Quarto Distrito plot on Rua Frederico Mentz was inundated during the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods, prompting V.tal’s data centre business, now operating under the Tecto brand, to spend much of 2025 searching for a site outside the flood zone.

V.O.A returns as a 20 MW build in Sarandi

Tecto relaunched the project in January 2026 as TPOA1, a R$200 million retrofit of an existing warehouse on a 33,000 sq m site in Sarandi, with capacity increasing from 3 MW at partial opening in the fourth quarter of 2026 to 20 MW at full buildout. The facility will use closed-loop air cooling with zero water consumption, similar to the approach planned at Terranova’s Campinas campus, and will connect to the Malbec submarine cable.

Project Overview

• Project Name: TPOA1, successor to the V.O.A edge data centre project
• Location: Sarandi, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, relocated from Bairro Quarto Distrito
• Project Value: Approximately R$200 million for the first phase (Tecto, January 2026). Instituto Telecom reported R$700 million across all phases in April 2026. The original V.O.A scheme was budgeted at R$250 million
• Client or Owner: Tecto Data Centers, the data centre subsidiary of V.tal
• Site Area: 33,000 sq m, already acquired by the company
• Capacity: 3 MW in the first phase, increasing to 20 MW at full buildout, compared with 6 MW and 400 racks under the original V.O.A design
• Key Components: Retrofit of an existing warehouse, closed-loop air cooling with no water consumption, operation using renewable power, direct connection to the Malbec submarine cable
• Connectivity: Malbec connects Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Buenos Aires, with a 280 km branch to Porto Alegre expected in 2027, linking the site to V.tal’s 26,000 km submarine network
• First Phase Operation: Fourth quarter of 2026
• Target Market: Large technology companies, digital content providers, cloud operators and enterprise clients

Project Team

• Owner and Developer: Tecto Data Centers
• Parent Company: V.tal
• Controlling Shareholder: BTG Pactual
• Submarine Cable Operator: V.tal, owner of the Malbec system
• Host Municipality: Prefeitura de Porto Alegre
• State Government: Governo do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul
• Main Contractor: Not yet disclosed

Reported 17th December 2023: In September 2023, V.tal, a Brazilian data center group announced their plans to establish the V.O.A project, an Edge data facility, in Brazil’s Porto Alegre city.

According to the firm, the project will come at a cost of R$250 million (US$41.1m).

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With a power capacity of 3 MW, V.OA was initially meant to start operations with two data halls. Once the data center reaches its full operation status, it is expected that it will boast a power capacity of 6 MW. It would be capable of accommodating 400 racks in four data halls.

V.O.A Project’s location

V.O.A, the new data center, will be situated at a strategic location in Bairro Quarto Distrito, Porto Alegre, the southern part of the south American nation.
The project’s operational space was a designated 5,000 square meters.

When were the plans for the Edge facility first mooted?

The Edge facility plans were initially put forward by the data center group in December of 2022. This came by the time they were proposing plans for a data center with a 4 MW capacity.

V.tal’s data center network

Currently, V.tal owns an existing network consisting of four edge data centers. These facilities include two data centers in Fortaleza, Brazil, one in Rio de Janeiro, as well as one in Barranquilla, Colombia. These four forms a network in which the company hopes to seamlessly integrate V.O.A project.

Connecting Brazil to a number of countries, such as Argentina, Bermuda, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States, the company boasts an extensive network, spanning 26,000 km of submarine cables.

Due to its infrastructure, the company plays a huge role in improving digital connectivity. It also takes part in data transmission across regions.

Currently part of telco GlobeNet, V.tal is a fiber firm. The company was previously an fiber-optic infrastructure assets unit belonging to the Oi.

Last year, BTG, GlobeNet’s owner, obtained a majority equity V.tal interest.