Ascenty has launched a new $73 million data center in Brazil. The property is its second in the Sumaré municipality, according to Data Economy.
The move follows Ascenty’s $2 billion investment plan to invest in infrastructure in Latin America.
With the second Sumaré center addition, Ascenty will have 13 operational colocation centers in Brazil. By the end of 2020, the company aims to add three more in the country and one in Chile, according to Data Economy.
Sumaré is the second-largest city in the Campinas Metropolitan Region, which houses the majority of the company’s operating data centers, according to Pablo Campagnac, Ascenty’s vice president of new business. The project was created to meet infrastructure demand from large cloud providers.
In July, Ascenty and its parent company Digital Realty opened four new data centers in the greater Sao Paulo metropolitan area. The new facilities, located in Jundiai, Hortolandia and Paulinia, add 24 megawatts of capacity.
"Including these new data centers and two additional sites expected to launch in the third quarter, Ascenty will own 17 data centers, further solidifying our position as the leading data center operator in Latin America,” said Chris Torto, CEO Ascenty, in a statement in July. “We continue to see tremendous growth in the region, and we are now poised to accelerate our development plans."
In 2018, Digital Realty acquired Ascenty from private equity firm Great Hill Partners in a $1.8 billion deal. It also struck a deal with Brookfield Asset Management for joint ownership of Ascenty, under which Brookfield would commit around half of the funding for the purchase — $613 million.
At that time, Ascenty had eight state-of-the-art data centers located in Sao Paulo, Campinas, Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza. Most of the Ascenty facilities have been designed and built to Tier III standards.
