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Terranova launches its first data centre in Mexico

Terranova launches its first data centre in Mexico

Terranova, the hyperscale data centre platform backed by the Actis infrastructure fund, described as one of the largest and longest-standing sustainable infrastructure investors globally, has launched its first data centre in Mexico.

Reportedly designed in two months and built in ten months, the facility is located in the Querétaro region in north-central Mexico, one of Latin America's most dynamic digital hubs, and is designed to meet the growing demand for AI capacity, cloud services, and mission-critical applications. It can reportedly scale to 20MW.

Querétaro is now seen as Mexico's data centre capital, although there has been a great deal of controversy about water consumption by data centres in an area that last year endured its worst drought in a century.

Terranova is also building a data centre in the city of San Miguel de Allende in Guanajuato in central Mexico, scheduled for delivery in early 2026.

Actis launched Terranova late last year, with plans to invest US$1.5 billion over the next three years, to power the region’s next phase of digital growth. It says it will be building energy-efficient and customer-focused data centres that meet the rising demand for AI and cloud infrastructure across Brazil, Mexico, and Chile, with additional markets under evaluation.

The company has reportedly secured land and power supply in strategic locations, with the goal of scaling up to 1GW of future capacity in Latin America.

The Data Centre Dynamics website notes that Actis has a number of investments in digital infrastructure across a variety of growth markets.

These include 11 data centres in six countries on the continent through its NextStream subsidiary, and investments in China, Nigeria, Europe and South Africa, as well as in a number of energy firms.

An Actis-led consortium took over Telkom’s Swiftnet tower unit in South Africa in March last year after a lengthy approval process, reported in these pages.

Another platform, Epoch Digital, launched in June 2024, is targeting markets in Asia including 120MW in capacity in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.



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