Scala Data Centers
Brazilian data-centre operator building the AI City campus at Eldorado do Sul.
Scala Data Centers has a confirmed 120 MW route onto Brazil's National Grid for its AI City campus from January 2028. The regulator's order became public on 10 September 2026, five days before Brazil's Redata tax law was signed.
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Data Centres: Boom and BacklashBackground
Scala Data Centers is a Brazilian data-centre operator. Its named project in 2026 is the AI City campus at Eldorado do Sul, in Rio Grande do Sul, a site built for computing loads that need large and dependable power supplies.
The company's project has a dated power milestone. The National grid operator's access opinion sets AI City's connection at 120 MW from January 2028, following the regulator's September 2026 authorisation.
Federal tax terms now frame Scala's build. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed Lei 15.504 on 15 September 2026, creating the Redata tax breaks for qualifying data-centre and AI construction and keeping the Senate's water-use limit of 0.05 litres per kilowatt-hour. Any Redata claim for AI City would carry that annual water test.
Scala secures power before the rationing
Aneel's Despacho 3.506 authorised Scala to connect AI City, in Eldorado do Sul, to The National transmission grid. The order is dated 3 September 2026 and appeared in the official gazette on 10 September. It feeds the campus through a cut into the 525 kV Guaiba 3 to Nova Santa Rita line. The order itself carries no megawatt figure; the grid operator's access opinion sets 120 MW from January 2028.
The authorisation predates Brazil's first competitive round for connections, held on 6 and 7 October. In that round seven qualified projects sought 451 MW against 228 MW on offer at four São Paulo points; three won it all and the rest left with nothing. AI City needed no such contest.
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