Elea Data Centers
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Elea Data Centers is a Brazilian colocation provider that sells rack, cage, and wholesale data center space across nine operational campuses in five metro areas of Brazil (São Paulo/São Bernardo do Campo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Brasília, and Curitiba), as of 2025-2026. Headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and founded in 2019 by Piemonte Holding, Elea markets itself as Brazil’s most geographically distributed colocation platform and runs entirely on renewable energy. Its most distinguishing project is Rio AI City, a planned gigawatt-scale AI-focused campus in Rio’s Jacarepaguá/Olympic Park area that, according to company and press announcements, could scale toward 3+ GW of capacity and up to roughly 27 buildings, positioning Elea to compete for hyperscale AI training workloads rather than just traditional enterprise colocation.
Elea Data Centers has a confirmed data center presence at the following locations:
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Elea Data Centers Data Center Locations
- Brasília, Federal District, Brazil BSB1 Brasília Data Center TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
BSB1 sits in a government hub in Brasília that serves major banks and public institutions and operates as a Tier III facility. - Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil CTA1 Curitiba Data Center CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
CTA1 is described by industry sources as the data center with the largest installed power capacity in Curitiba, the capital of Paraná state. - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil RJO1 Rio de Janeiro Data Center (Rio AI City Phase 1)AI DATA CENTER TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
RJO1 was originally built by Brazilian media company Globo in 2016 to support its coverage of the Rio Olympics, before Elea acquired the 5,225 sqm facility in 2021, and it is rated Tier III by the Uptime Institute and LEED Gold certified. - Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil POA1 Porto Alegre Data Center CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
POA1 sits in Porto Alegre's Bela Vista neighborhood and provides connectivity into the Southern Cone of Latin America. - Barueri, São Paulo, Brazil SPO3 Tamboré Data Center CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
SPO3 is located in the Tamboré district of Barueri, part of Elea's broader São Paulo metro-area cluster of facilities alongside SPO1 and SPO2. - São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil SPO2 São Bernardo do Campo Data Center CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
SPO2 was acquired by Elea from IT services firm DXC Technology in 2024, adding a large existing facility to Elea's São Paulo-area footprint. - São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil SPO1 São Paulo Data Center CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
SPO1 sits in São Paulo's Panamérica Park business condominium near the city's financial center and connects to Brazil's IX.br peering exchange.
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AI Data Centers
Elea's AI-optimized push is centered on Rio AI City, a new campus being built next to its existing RJO1 facility in Rio de Janeiro's Jacarepaguá area. The project is planned to start with roughly 1.5 GW of capacity and scale toward 3+ GW (some reports cite up to 3.5 GW) across as many as 27 buildings, explicitly designed to support hyperscaler and AI training/inference workloads. Its first new phase, RJO2, is under construction and expected to add 80MW of capacity in 2026, using waterless and chilled-water cooling approaches the company says are meant to keep the AI buildout sustainable.
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil RJO1 Rio de Janeiro Data Center (Rio AI City Phase 1) AI DATA CENTER TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRALPENDING REVIEW
RJO1 was originally built by Brazilian media company Globo in 2016 to support its coverage of the Rio Olympics, before Elea acquired the 5,225 sqm facility in 2021, and it is rated Tier III by the Uptime Institute and LEED Gold certified.
Common Questions
Does Elea Data Centers have AI/GPU-specific infrastructure?
Yes. Elea is developing "Rio AI City," a hyperscale campus adjacent to its existing RJO1 facility in Rio de Janeiro's Jacarepaguá district, described by the company as an AI-focused district with an initial capacity of 1.5 GW scalable toward 3+ GW, using waterless/chilled-water cooling systems. The first new phase, RJO2, is expected to deliver 80MW and become operational in 2026.
In which cities does Elea Data Centers operate physical facilities?
As of 2025-2026, Elea operates nine data center campuses across five Brazilian metro areas: São Paulo (SPO1) and São Bernardo do Campo/Barueri (SPO2, SPO3), Rio de Janeiro (RJO1, with RJO2-4 in development), Porto Alegre (POA1, POA2), Brasília (BSB1, BSB2), and Curitiba (CTA1).
Is Elea Data Centers a colocation company or a cloud provider?
Elea sells physical colocation space — racks, cages, and wholesale capacity — that customers fill with their own hardware, rather than selling cloud compute as a service; industry coverage repeatedly describes it as a national colocation platform.
Who owns Elea Data Centers?
Elea was founded in 2019 by Piemonte Holding and received investment from Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 2021; in 2026 infrastructure investor I Squared Capital announced an acquisition of Elea to scale its AI data center expansion.
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