DCPI-LATAM is structured around five core pillars shaping large-scale data center growth across the region:
1. Break the Energy Bottleneck: Power at Scale. Investing in and optimizing existing and new generation capacity to support large-scale data center demand as projects scale from megawatts to gigawatts.
2. Interconnection: Bridging the Transmission Gap. Addressing transmission congestion, grid access, and interconnection timelines—the most urgent physical constraint across the region.
3. Agile Governance: Aligning Policy with InfrastructureSpeed. Synchronizing permitting, regulation, and grid planning with the timelines of hyperscalers, colocation providers, and developers
4. Sustainable Foundations: Water, Cooling, Workforce & Social License. Treating water availability, cooling systems, workforce capacity, and community engagement as core infrastructure requirements.
5. Capital at Scale: Financing LATAM’s Data Center Pipeline. Structuring bankable PPAs, financing models, and risk allocation – including social and community considerations that influence approvals, financing, and long-term project viability – to move projects from MOU to financial close.
Break the Energy Bottleneck: Scaling Generation from Megawatts to Gigawatts
To meet the massive needs of cloud campuses, Latin America must move beyond megawatts and enter the gigawatt era. The region can produce enough energy to fuel this rapid hyperscale infrastructure expansion.
How are energy producers and utilities planning for the massive jump from 20MW data centers to 500MW+ cloud and AI campuses?
What self-generation and behind-the-meter strategies are data center operators choosing while waiting for long-term transmission lines?
How do energy, fiber, and connectivity demands vary across LATAM markets — and what does this mean for where infrastructure gets built?
Brazilian Data Center Association (ABDC) Director of EducationModerator
Energy Reform and Large-Scale Investment Frameworks in Argentina
Argentina, South America’s second-largest power market (≈145 TWh) with world-class solar and wind resources, is fast-tracking historic economic reforms. The nation’s large-scale investment regime, RIGI, has already approved ~$31 billion in projects, with an additional $110 billion in the pipeline. Now, a newly advanced “Súper RIGI” explicitly targeting emerging industries, including datacenters, has just passed Argentina’s Lower House. Join us to explore how these frameworks are reshaping the region’s investment landscape.
New Energy Events DCPI-LATAM Program DirectorModerator
Agile Governance: Aligning Policy with Data Center Growth
With technology developing faster than policy, Latin America’s new challenge is creating regulatory frameworks that can move as fast as the gigawatt-scale projects they govern.
How can federal governments orchestrate faster multi-agency project permitting processes addressing energy, water and land availability?
How can governments take a proactive role in grid governance, ensuring transmission infrastructure is planned in coordination with data center growth, not after it?
How can regulators create frameworks that adapt to the changing needs of the AI era?
Ministry of Mines and Energy, Brazil Director of the Department of Planning and Granting of Transmission and Distribution of Electric Energy and International Interconnections
Deloitte Director of Strategy – Power & UtilitiesModerator
Networking Coffee Break
Interconnection: Bridging the Transmission Gap
As grid scarcity becomes the main bottleneck for data center scale-up in Latin America, shifting responsibility for funding and accelerating high-voltage infrastructure are of critical importance.
How can data center operators and utilities build joint, long-term grid planning processes, rather than reacting to congestion after it occurs?
What country-by-country differences in energy rates and grid structures should operators factor in when planning new campuses?
What role do innovative grid solutions play in accelerating speed-to-power for data centers?
With grid delays stalling project delivery, speed-to-power is now the ultimate competitive edge. This case study explores how advanced grid solutions bypass infrastructure bottlenecks to accelerate site activation.
Commercial De-Risking: Energy Volatility, PPAs, and RECs
In an era of grid volatility and strict ESG mandates, contractual and technical strategies — from PPAs to BESS — are needed to secure commercially viable hyperscale investments.
How are developers structuring PPAs in markets with high energy price volatility and shifting regulatory frameworks?
How can operators move beyond RECs to satisfy the strict ESG mandates of hyperscalers?
How is energy storage evolving from a technical necessity into a critical factor for commercial viability?
World Cup Semi-Final Watch Party & Networking Reception
Join us to enjoy an informal networking opportunity as we gather to watch the World Cup Semi-Final together in the beautiful scenery of the Sheraton Grand Rio Resort & Hotel.
Women in Data Centers Breakfast
Co-Hosted by Vertiv
Bridging the talent gap and fostering diverse leadership to power Latin America’s multi-megawatt infrastructure boom.
As data center campuses compete for local energy and water resources, social license has become a key pillar of operational permission and bankability.
How can developers move beyond water neutrality to receive public adoption?
How can fast-track permitting be achieved among public resistance and legal reversals?
What sustainability mandates are required to build a fully-certified data center?
Brazilian Data Center Association (ABDC) Director of Education
Latency & Power Proximity: Locating the Next Data Centers
Increasing grid congestion in the well-established hubs of Latin America is forcing a pivot towards energy-rich locations, where connectivity levels vary significantly.
How can developers balance the demand for low-latency in established hubs with the power availability of remote regions?
What role does connectivity infrastructure play in attracting hyperscaler demand?
How can operators identify the prime locations and fast-track permitting to ensure “speed-to-power” in emerging hubs of Brazil, Argentina or Paraguay?
Supply Chain: Optimizing Cost, Lead-Time and Sustainability
As Latin America scales up, developers face high import taxes and volatile lead times for critical infrastructure like transformers, switchgear or IT equipment.
How can operators mitigate lead-time for critical power and IT equipment that currently delay project delivery?
What impact will legislation, Free Trade Zones or nearshoring have on streamlining imports and making projects bankable?
How can procurement strategies balance speed with sustainability mandates and local content requirements?
Energy Economics: Optimizing Cost, Reliability and Sustainability at Scale
As hyperscaler campuses push toward GW-scale, operators face mounting pressure to balance energy costs against reliability, sustainability mandates, and speed-to-power, with no single solution fitting all markets.
How do energy costs and tariff structures across LATAM markets affect the business case for self-generation vs. grid-sourced power?
What is the true total cost of ownership when factoring in BESS, backup generation, and grid connection fees – and how do operators model this at gigawatt scale?
How do you avoid over-indexing on cheap energy today at the expense of long-term sustainability commitments and bankability?
Connection Corridors: Sustaining The New Generation of Data Center Growth
As subsea and terrestrial fiber expansions redraw the digital map of LAC, strategic connection corridors are emerging as the vital infrastructure needed to de-risk gigawatt-scale investments.
How are subsea cable expansions on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts reshaping Latin America’s role as a global data hub?
How can terrestrial backbones such as the Bioceanic Corridor provide networks to de-risk GW-scale investments?
How can innovative fiber networks transform energy islands into viable hyperscaler hubs?
