Shares details on land parcel acquired in October last year V.tal’s data center subsidiary Tecto has shared details for its first hyperscale data center in São Paulo Announced in a recent LinkedIn post located in the Santana de Parnaíba municipality will deliver 200MW of capacity with the facility expected to be entirely powered by renewable energy Further specifications have not been shared V.tal first acquired the land parcel in October last year alongside the launch of its data center subsidiary and a $1 billion investment plan for data center expansion in the region the company broke ground on a new facility - dubbed Mega Lobster - in Fortaleza Mega Lobster will occupy an area of 13,000 sqm (139,930 sq ft) and will have a capacity of 20MW The company signed PPAs with Atlas Renewable and Atiaia Renováve at the end of last year to supply solar power to all of its Brazilian data center operations V.tal has a number of subsea cable investments in the region and thousands of miles of terrestrial fiber Santana de Parnaíba is also home to the likes of Equinix and OData Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. 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All rights reserved 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region. 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects Analysis, reports, news and interviews about your industry in English, Spanish and Portuguese. management said it was difficult to assess their impact because variables keep changing.Director-at-large Wesley Mendonça Batista Filho said a better assessment could be made after April 2 noting trade measures already announced by the Trump administration did not affect JBS' first-quarter performance.Reporting by Ana Mano; Editing by Rod Nickel buyers will need to secure a reliable partner for large beef volumes "That partner is Brazil," Perosa said.Brazil has tried to negotiate an increase of the tariff-free quota to 150,000 tons with the U.S. but the state of the talks is unclear following Trump's return to the White House earlier this week is Brazil's second-largest export destination for beef after China and is also the South American country's second-largest trade partner overall.Brazil pays a 12% tariff to export beef to China which took in $5.4 billion worth of the South American country's beef last year citing trade data.Reporting by Ana Mano; Editing by Paul Simao Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region news and interviews about your industry in English Brazilian power regulation authority Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica (Aneel) has authorized the connection of 479MW of new projects to the country’s grid by 2032 with 359MW of the new capacity for data center customers The capacity is split between three data centers across the state of São Paulo in south-eastern Brazil Aurea Finvest, an independent real estate development company that focuses on the data center market, has secured 200MW, scheduled to come online by December 2032. It will use the capacity to power a 200MW hyperscale data center project in Santana de Parnaíba the project will be connected via the Edgard de Souza substation operated by ISA Energia Brasil and electrical approvals required for the data center to be installed on site ready for construction and assembly to begin.” to be added by July 2028 for a project in São Paulo the project will connect through the sectioning of ISA Energia Brasil's transmission system The approval includes building a 2.9km (1.8 mile) 440kV double-circuit transmission line that will link ISA’s grid to a REC substation located in the Franco da Rocha municipality REC is the Brazilian subsidiary of GLP Capital Partners fund a Brazilian information technology company secured 71MW of capacity to be added by December 2032 for a CloudHQ-developed data center in Paulínia The project will be connected via the Replan substation in Paulínia The authorization will include the construction of a 230kV The remaining 120MW of capacity has been earmarked for a bioenergy and agribusiness company which intends to deploy a consumer unit focused on processing corn for ethanol production in Bahia state A version of this story appeared on our Brazilian edition Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. 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Reporting by Ana Mano in São Paulo; Additional reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu in Brasília IBGE said.Only the United States produces more beef than Brazil low cattle inventories defied meat producers in recent quarters including Brazil-headquartered JBS and Marfrig.Even as cattle slaughtering increased last year Brazil still boasts one of the world's largest cattle herds according to IBGE data.Brazil is likewise very competitive in the global chicken and hog meats trade where it commands respectively a 37% and a 13% share of total world sales according to trade data compiled by meat lobby ABPA.Chicken and hog slaughtering were also record last year totaling 6.28 billion and 57.17 million head respectively Company breaks ground on 20MW facility in Fortaleza Brazilian fiber firm V.tal has launched a new data center subsidiary The company has also broken ground on a new facility in Fortaleza and acquired land in São Paulo for its first data center in the city “The Tecto Data Centers brand was officially launched yesterday during an event with authorities and the press to plant the cornerstone of the high-scale high-density Mega Lobster data center in Fortaleza,” the company said over the weekend He said: “The data center business is becoming increasingly strategic for V.tal which has significant knowledge in investments and infrastructure projects We have developed a robust plan for the construction of new Edge and hyperscale data centers that will place us on a new level in this market.” The company acquired the land for Mega Lobster last year the new data center will occupy an area of 13,000 sqm (139,930 sq ft) and will have a capacity of 20MW The company will invest around R$ 550 million (US$97m) in the project which will see the first phase go live in Q4 2025 An existing customer has reportedly been secured for the multi-tenant facility as the anchor tenant, according to BNAmericas Tecto’s launch was paired with a $1 billion investment plan by V.tal to expand its data center footprint in Brazil This will be funded by shareholder BTG Pactual as well as Singapore’s GIC and Canada’s CPP Investments V.tal also announced it acquired land in Santana do Parnaíba Owned by BTG Pactual Infrastructure Fund II the current V.tal was firmed after BTG merged wholesale telecom operator GlobeNet with Oi’s fiber-optic infrastructure assets unit Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia , opens new tab and triggered an automatic ban on Brazilian beef sales to China.Earlier on Thursday Iran and Jordan - slapped temporarily bans on beef imported from anywhere in Brazil.Russian authorities also halted Brazilian beef imports according to an earlier statement from the ministry.There is only one meatpacking plant in Para authorized to sell beef to Russia.Brazil's ministry of agriculture and livestock emphasized that it aims to re-establish beef exports "as soon as possible."The infected animal has already been destroyed Officials explained that atypical cases of mad cow disease can occur spontaneously in cattle populations and such infections do not depend on ingestion of feed contaminated by abnormal pathogens known as prions.But BSE is considered more serious because it involves contamination by so-called prion proteins and could trigger potentially ruinous trade bans.Reporting by Nayara Figueiredo and Ana Mano; Additional reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu; Editing by David Gregorio and Michael Perry Company opens first hyperscale facility in Americas plans a second in the same city and another in Mexico City Equinix has inaugurated a new hyperscale data center in São Paulo Located in Santana de Parnaíba next to the company’s SP3 IBX data center the new SP5x facility has a capacity of approximately 5MW in its first phase The data center is expected to provide a total capacity of 14.4MW when all phases are completed The company said it expects to invest a total of $116.4 million in the facility “With Equinix's first xScale deployment in the Americas This facility is designed to meet the differentiated requirements of our hyperscale customers in a highly competitive marketplace,” said Eduardo Carvalho "SP5x is strategically located within our São Paulo campus connected to the rich digital and business ecosystems within our four existing Equinix IBX data centers providing SP5x customers with proximity and access to the world's best digital business platform." Ambitions for the xScale platform have since been expanded further and will have 32 facilities globally and more than 600MW of power capacity when fully built out SP5x is the first xScale facility in the Americas Two more hyperscale facilities are planned in Latin America; another in São Paulo and one in Mexico City None are currently planned in the US or Canada but the three more are due at currently unannounced locations Equinix currently has 10 IBX facilities in Latin America; two in Rio de Janeiro and four in São Paulo Brazil; two in Mexico City and one in Monterrey A version of this story appeared on our Brazilian edition Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. 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Find the answers to the most frequently asked questions in our FAQ collection. the controlling shareholder of the world´s largest meatpacker is seeking to negotiate a reduction in the 10.3 billion real ($3.2 billion) fine it agreed to pay in 2017 over its role in corruption scandals three sources with knowledge of the case said.But a federal prosecutor is appealing the decision by another prosecutor who in May agreed to lower the fine on one of Brazil's largest business groups to 3.5 billion reais and the outcome is not clear a spokesperson for his office said.It was the largest fine ever applied in Brazil after plea bargain and leniency deals signed by J&F Investimentos in which its founders Joesley and Wesley Batista confessed to running a political bribery ring.A source who has seen court documents said that a three-member federal prosecutors chamber led by prosecutor Ronaldo Albo agreed to reduce the fine due to alleged legal and accounting errors made in 2017 though J&F was given just eight years to pay the penalty instead of the original 25 years.A spokesperson for the prosecutors office of the Federal District said the fine's reduction had not been approved by a court and a second prosecutor Carlos Martins was seeking to annul the decision."It does not have judicial approval and Prosecutor Martins is appealing to the council and seeking a retraction of the reduction by the chamber," the spokesperson said.According to sources familiar with the case who did not want to be identified because the case is under seal the company will continue to appeal for a further reduction of the fine and has filed an appeal.The company declined to comment as the case is under seal.The source with knowledge of the documents said J&F hopes to lower the fine to 1 billion reais payable over 25 years.He said the original fine was wrongly calculated on the global revenues of the company which Brazilian prosecutors have no way of knowing because it is outside their jurisdiction.The fine should have been calculated based only on a proportion of the group's revenues equal to J&F shares in the holding company and should have considered J&F's collaboration with investigators as an attenuating factor the same source said."The company will continue fighting in court to have these factors taken into account and reduce the fine," he said.Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Jamie Freed Brazil’s JBS says it can’t trace the origins of all stock as concern grows over deforestation linked to beef industry Now JBS is facing growing pressure from Brazilian politicians and environmentalists to address the information gaps and transparency failings in its supply chain Critics say these deficiencies mean JBS is unable to ensure it does not buy cattle from farms involved in illegal deforestation over a decade after promising to do so who presides over the environment commission has called for Brazil’s environment and agriculture ministers to attend a Congress hearing “These facts are serious and they should be investigated rigorously,” he said Further criticism has been levelled at the audits done on the JBS supply chain, which state openly that there is “no verification system” in place for indirect suppliers. Read more“This is totally against ethical principles in relation to its consumers,” said Marina Silva a former environment minister who won international awards for reducing deforestation and called for a certification programme “These audits end up as more of a smokescreen.” Cattle may be birthed on one farm, fattened on another, and then sold on to other farms or slaughterhouses. Photograph: João Laet/The GuardianJBS operates sophisticated checks for cattle reaching its slaughterhouses from Amazon “full cycle” farms – where cattle are reared from birth to slaughter. These farms are also called “direct suppliers”. “The JBS monitoring system in the Amazon covers more than 280,000 sq miles, an area larger than Germany, and assesses more than 50,000 potential cattle-supplying farms every day,” the company said. “To date, we have blocked more than 8,000 cattle-supplying farms due to noncompliance.” But this is only part of the picture. JBS does not monitor indirect suppliers in its supply chain. These are farms where cattle are birthed, or those who sell to farms where cattle are fattened, who then sell on to other farms or to slaughterhouses. Marfrig, JBS’s biggest competitor admits that half its cattle in the Amazon come from such suppliers, but JBS so far has refused to give figures to the Guardian’s direct question. And that, say environmentalists, prosecutors and researchers, is a big problem. “Cattle supply chains are really fluid and producers can move between the different roles and commonly sell as both direct suppliers and indirect suppliers,” said Holly Gibbs, a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin who has monitored Amazon cattle supply chains for a decade. Her research showed that 80% of direct suppliers in the Amazon bought from other properties – on average up to 15 of them. Read more“Direct suppliers often own multiple properties but only one is property is monitored,” she said “The vast majority are either adjacent or within 1km.” She compared the system to using air conditioning in a heatwave but leaving the windows open “The cattle companies are monitoring direct suppliers but there are so many loopholes that the indirect suppliers can just come in and out,” she said Last year Marfrig told the Guardian that 53% of its cattle purchases came from indirect suppliers But JBS refused to discuss how many of its cattle came from indirect suppliers and declined to make a spokesperson available for interview “JBS is committed to eradicating deforestation ensuring sustainable livestock practices and improving the livelihoods of farmers in the Amazon region,” the company said by email “We have worked for more than a decade on the frontlines We urge those who share the common goal of ending deforestation to seek solutions rather than criticism We will only meet this collective challenge and preserve this important biome through collaboration and action.” The meat companies promised not to buy from any direct suppliers involved in deforestation and to expand that commitment to include indirect suppliers within two years The same year federal prosecutors in Amazon states signed agreements with more than a dozen meat companies “It was a watermark,” said Greenpeace Brazil’s senior forest campaigner Adriana Charoux a federal prosecutor who played a key role in the prosecutors’ deal But he noted: “It talked about the direct suppliers not those who sell to another farm.” A clause in the deal requiring companies to start monitoring indirect suppliers had no deadline “Our credibility would have been completely at risk if we continued with them,” Charoux said but Azeredo believes meat companies should be doing more “All the companies working in the Amazon know that indirect suppliers is a serious problem,” he said When asked about these issues, JBS points journalists to the independent audits performed by Norwegian company DNV.GL, the latest of which reported that no irregularities relating to deforestation in 7,140 Amazon cattle transactions were found during 2018. The same company audits Marfrig. But the 2019 audit added a caveat, as it also did in 2018. “Regarding indirect suppliers, JBS and the industry in general does not yet have in place a verification system in these cases,” it said. Critics questioned an audit that failed to check out the entire supply chain. “Nobody is going to buy the animals if they don’t know where they are from, or if they are healthy,” said Prem Sikka, a professor of accounting and finance at the University of Sheffield. “If there is a trail, that makes the auditors’ omission even more damning.” DNV.GL has been doing audits for Marfrig since 2011 and for JBS since 2018. “Our role is to assess adherence to the ‘minimum criteria for transactions with cattle and beef products on an industrial scale in the amazon biome’,” a spokesperson said in an email, referring to the terms of the deal with Greenpeace signed in 2009 – but crucially, not the promise to start monitoring indirect suppliers within two years, by 2011. Read more“Indirect suppliers’ information was requested however the companies do not have this information,” DNV.GL said “In both cases a non-conformity was raised.” JBS has not yet been successful in implementing traceability processes,” the audit’s “non-conformity” entry read Since 2013, Marfrig has used a self-declaratory mechanism called a request form of information (RFI) in which the farm delivering the cattle is required to supply the name of its supplier including tax number and the name of the farm A spokesperson said last year that 30% of its cattle supply from the Amazon came with the form which it is working with the World Wildlife Fund and other non-profit groups to improve RFI is a good tool even though it is voluntary,” said Mauro Armelin executive director of Friends of the Earth Brazil Lack of transparency makes it difficult to tell if cattle originate from illegally-deforested areas Photograph: João Laet/The GuardianArmelin said monitoring systems could also make use of state and federal government information on cattle movements the Brazilian government restricted access to sanitary control documents that had previously been accessible “It’s critical that this data stays available,” Gibbs from the University of Wisconsin said “It’s very challenging to monitor indirect suppliers.” DNV.GL stated that the government documents “are not public” and that JBS and other companies have been trying to get access to them from the ministry without success But other researchers have succeeded in accessing them in the past.Using these documents and information from Brazilian government registers and databases, University of Wisconsin researchers and the US National Wildlife Federation developed their own monitoring system: Visipec; a free cloud-based tool that can be plugged into cattle companies’ current monitoring systems they’re open and there’s a lot of discussions happening,” Gibbs said of the meat companies It was announced on Thursday that JBS is buying American meat-packing company Empire Packing Company for $238m (£185m) 30% of them infected with the protozoan that causes Chagas disease teams from the Endemic Diseases Oversight Office (SUCEN) have found 135 insects in the municipalities of Greater São Paulo that are carriers of the protozoan that causes Chagas disease While there are no cases of the disease reported in humans yet laboratory analyses at SUCEN indicate that the captured insects had been feeding on the blood of humans and animals “We need to be careful to avoid transmission to people,” warns biologist Rubens Antonio da Silva a scientific researcher and technical coordinator for the Chagas disease control program at the oversight agency When a kissing bug was identified in 2015 in Pirapora do Bom Jesus Silva and his team thought they might be simply sporadic events That conclusion fell apart when they received calls from residents of Taboão da Serra in the following years and also received notifications from Carapicuíba and neighborhoods in the western districts of São Paulo Juquitiba and Santana de Parnaíba were added to the list of municipalities reporting kissing bugs researchers identified colonies with 57 insects living in possum nests under the tile roofs of three houses in a subdivision surrounded by forest 47% of the kissing bugs were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi females with eggs were found under the mattress on which the residents slept While on the rise for the first time in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region the kissing bug population has fallen in other parts of the state The total number of insects captured has decreased from about 6,000 in 2007 to about 2,000 in 2018 as Silva describes in an article published in April 2019 in the Brazilian Journal of Health Review the state of São Paulo reported only one new case of Chagas disease in 2016 and two in 2017 During the same two years the number of new cases went from 20 to 320 in Pará and from 3 to 24 in Amapá states with the majority of new case reports Brazil received international certification from the World Health Organization (WHO) for practically eliminating the kissing bug Triatoma infestans the principal species transmitting the disease which today is restricted to regions of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul as a result of the high infection rates prevalent through the mid-twentieth century it’s estimated that 1.2 million to 4.6 million people in Brazil have the chronic form of Chagas disease responsible for approximately 6,000 deaths per year which affects about 30% of people with the parasite according to the WHO Currently the species of kissing bug that causes the most concern is Panstrongylus megistus since it is capable of living in both forests and domestic spaces Megistus has a brown body with red spots and is 2.5 to 4 centimeters in length the insect may enter homes through open doors or windows cruzi by feeding on the blood of animals that harbor it—without themselves developing the disease—called natural reservoirs megistus in the metropolitan region of São Paulo have been sparse 15 specimens were captured in the city of São Paulo Only two insects were examined: one collected in 2011 in Jabaquara but the specimen collected in 2014 in Sacomã This is according to a survey by biologist Walter Ceretti Junior published in July 2018 in the Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo rodents and possums approach houses for shelter and food,” says Ceretti Júnior “The possibility of parasite transmission leaving the sylvatic [wildlife] cycle and expanding into urban areas is at the very least worrying,” says epidemiologist Guilherme Werneck a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) megistus in areas close to forests in four neighborhoods in the western districts of São Paulo: Jardim Amaralina Examining the locations of kissing bug reports in recent years they concluded that the insects may be on the move taking advantage of parks and forest corridors starting from the region between the Régis Bittencourt and Raposo Tavares highways “If in fact there is a territorial expansion of the carrier insects the situation tends to worsen,” Silva observes He believes that if the hypothesis is correct then since the insects reproduce more intensely in the summer residents of northern neighborhoods such as Tucuruvi will likely find the insects nearby or inside their homes by late 2019 SUCEN’s action plan includes communicating with the residents of Cotia The parasite is transmitted mainly through food or beverages contaminated with feces from kissing bugs “We have to avoid letting them form colonies 565 adults and 1,183 kissing bug nymphs of the species Rhodnius neglectus were collected from dozens of palm trees in the streets and squares of the northwestern city of Araçatuba in São Paulo State He states that although these kissing bugs weren’t infected the concern is that a contaminated possum might climb the palm trees in search of parrot eggs and transmit the parasite to the insects “The identification of kissing bugs in urban areas reinforces the need to warn of the risks of transmission to humans,” says biologist José Eduardo Tolezano director of the Center for Parasitology at the Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL) today accounts for 9% of the human cases recorded in Brazil by the Ministry of Health the means by which the parasite was transmitted is not identified Currently the leading cause is oral transmission (72%) through the consumption of food or drink containing feces from insects contaminated with the parasite a study by the Tropical Medicine Foundation reported ten cases of people who presented with the initial symptoms of Chagas disease—fever and weakness—after drinking acai juice contaminated with T a transmission event of still uncertain origin was reported In a group of 77 people who attended a religious retreat during Holy Week in Ibimirim possibly contracted from contaminated food or drink Their treatment was 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