SCALA DATA CENTERS
“ We already have 100MW in production , and we are now adding a second substation with another 100MW and the third substation will be 400MW . It ' s a massive amount of capacity . To give some perspective on this , the consumption in Tamboré alone will be the same size as the consumption required for the entirety of Brasília .”
The pace of Scala ’ s growth – particularly in 2022 and 2023 – is massive . But why ? Beyond simply a case of profit for profit ’ s sake , why has the speed of growth been set as such a paramount priority for the provider ?
“ Firstly , we understood from the beginning that this hyperscale market didn ' t exist in LATAM . We had hyperscale customers with capacity deployed in LATAM , but all of their capacity or all of their loads were relatively small , with one megawatt here , two megawatts there , and so on .”
Launched in 2021 , SGRUTB03 was the first single tenant data center built by Scala sustainabilitymag . com 83