Elea Data Centers has secured a R$2.3 billion (US$500 million) contract from Petrobras to build a large-scale, renewable-powered data center in São Paulo. The 17-year agreement is being described as the largest IT infrastructure award of its kind in Latin America.
The planned facility, located at Elea’s São Bernardo do Campo campus, will feature 30 MVA capacity and advanced liquid cooling systems. It is designed to host Petrobras’ supercomputers and support processing needs for exploration, reservoir management, and other critical operations, while also enabling artificial intelligence workloads.
Petrobras required that the project operate entirely on certified renewable energy, with full water reuse and efficiency standards aligned to the company’s sustainability goals. Elea noted that while sustainable data centers have been deployed globally, this marks the first project of such scale in Latin America.
The initiative comes as Petrobras continues its push to integrate advanced digital infrastructure into its upstream and research activities. It also aligns with Elea’s broader development strategy, which includes the Rio AI City project, a large-scale hub for AI and cloud workloads planned for Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park.
