V.tal, a global end-to-end digital infrastructure solutions company operating in the Americas and owner of the largest neutral fibre optic network in Brazil, has unveiled the new brand for its data centre business unit, Tecto Data Centres.
The company recently announced the separation of this unit from its neutral network FTTH (fibre to the home) and wholesale businesses, to provide greater focus and long-term vision, in addition to addressing an initial investment plan of US$1 billion.
The launch of the new brand took place late last week at an event that heralded the start of construction on a large-scale data centre called Mega Lobster in Fortaleza, a city in the state of Ceara in northeastern Brazil. The data centre will occupy an area of 13,000 square metres and will have a capacity of 20 MW.
Tecto’s Mega Lobster will benefit from V.tal’s high-capillarity terrestrial fibre infrastructure to connect in a diversified way to a neutral ecosystem, offering operators and content and cloud providers end-to-end solutions to access the central PIX (internet exchange point) of Ceara, which registers the second largest volume of internet traffic in Brazil.
Pedro Henrique Fragoso, a partner at financial company BTG Pactual, will be the executive responsible for Tecto, which will now have its own structure and governance, as well as a dedicated and experienced team.
Tecto currently has data centres in operation in Brazil and Colombia and plans to expand to two more cities – Porto Alegre, in Rio Grande do Sul in the south, and Santana de Parnaíba, in São Paulo in the southeast, in the initial phase.
All of Tecto’s data centres are connected to V.tal’s network, which consists of 26,000 kilometres of submarine optical cables connecting Brazil with Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, the United States and Bermuda, which are also connected to the high-capacity network with more than 450,000 kilometres distributed throughout all regions of Brazil.
Tecto plans to expand its data centre fleet to meet the demands of cloud and content providers, hyperscalers, telecom operators and government for storage of large volumes of mission-critical data and computing, in addition to enabling the service of private and public content exchange points. The investment plan includes the construction of new projects in all regions of Brazil.
Sustainability is also important, says V.tal, which is developing solar power plants in partnership with relevant market operators for its data centres, which will be supplied by 100% renewable energy.
