Around a year ago, in August 2024, Brazil launched its pioneering Artificial Intelligence Plan (PBIA), aiming to advance local and public AI solutions with relative independence from US tech giants, including by developing its own data centres. Less than a year later, little remains of this initial goal of digital sovereignty.
With the exponential adoption of AI around the world, we are also seeing an equally impressive global increase in data centres, which serve two purposes: storing data and processing computing services, from any software solutions to AI models.
While the vast majority of these centres are in the US, which reportedly has more than 5,000, Brazil is leading the way in Latin America, with 187 data centres (public and private), and the country ranks eleventh globally.
