Greater São Paulo cluster

Scala Data Centers · Ascenty · AWS · Barueri / Tamboré, São Paulo, Brazil

Water — consumed, not returned

Where the water comes from

Municipal potable supply

Cooling

Evaporative and chilled water

Basis

Modelled from cooling design — WUE 0.68 L/kWh

Air — what the stacks emit

Where it burns

Brazil — ONS

Generation mix

Hydro 58 · Wind 14 · Solar 9 · Gas 8

CO₂e

246 kt/yr — climate, not air quality

Who wanted it

Who asked for it

AWS, Microsoft, Google and Latin American enterprises; Scala has marketed a 4.7 GW AI City campus in Rio Grande do Sul

Who approved it

São Paulo state environmental licensing; Brazil's 2025 REDATA tax regime offers exemptions in exchange for domestic capacity commitments

What it serves

Latin American cloud regions and a growing AI training footprint

IT capacity

400 MW running of 1,200 MW announced

Brazil's hydro-dominated grid gives it some of the lowest-carbon compute outside the Nordics, but São Paulo's own reservoir crises make water the pressure point. The 2014–15 drought remains the reference case locally.

Where it is

-23.5100°, -46.8700°

Google Maps Satellite See it on the map

Water and air figures are modelled from disclosed capacity, not measured — site-level error is roughly ±40%. Diesel backup generators are not counted, so on-site figures are floors. Full method.