With this new infrastructure, three times larger than its predecessor and which will be inaugurated during the first quarter of 2025, the company seeks to create an integrated environment that drives innovation and connects companies in the region.
In 2024, Cirion Technologies' US$327 million investment in digital infrastructure and technology in Latin America not only aims to expand its data centers and cables, but also to build and strengthen a regional technology ecosystem as an integrated environment that drives digital transformation and connects companies.
The majority of this year's capex will go to ongoing data center projects in Santiago (Chile) and Lima (Peru), which will have 20MW of capacity with additional expansion potential and represent an investment of around US $120 million each. It will also be directed towards expansions in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Bogotá (Colombia), among others.
“Doubling the capacity of new data centers is due to the growing demand for digital services and the digital transformation that companies are experiencing,” explained Facundo Castro, CEO of Cirion Technologies to AméricaEconomía .
However, the second data center in Lima - which will be operational in 2025 - is not just a space for servers, it is a step towards the creation of a technological hub in Peru. Gianni Hanawa, Commercial Director of Cirion in Peru, emphasized that the objective is to establish a technological ecosystem that not only offers physical space, but also brings companies closer to the world of technology and promotes digital transformation in the country, understanding that the corporate market has particular needs from the point of view of structure, processes, tools, information and infrastructure.
“The second data center we are building in Lurín [Lima, Peru] is three times larger,” Hanawa said. “Cirion is seeking to transform its market approach by adopting a more integrated and collaborative ecosystem vision, and at the same time, has a broader purpose of contributing to the technological development of Latin America.”
For Facundo Castro, digital transformation is no longer an option, but an imperative need for companies. “Those that do not adapt and transform digitally will face difficulties competing in the technology market, attracting and retaining customers, developing new products, automating processes and offering the experience that customers expect. Great connectivity is required, since more and more processes, applications and data are hosted in data centers,” he stated.
The company today interconnects its 18 carrier-neutral data centers - not linked or limited to a single telecommunications service provider - in Latin America, supported by a network infrastructure that offers critical end-to-end connectivity between key regions of Latin America and the United States. And it is through them that it provides services to more than 5,500 clients belonging to the corporate market, that is, telecommunications, content, gaming , software , or hyperscalers companies , both Latin American and multinational.
“Our mission is to reduce the gap between the most developed markets and Latin America to be able to provide global clients with services of the same quality and with the same advanced capabilities,” said Facundo Castro.
EMERGING AND CHANGING TRENDS
On the other hand, Facundo Castro mentions that although many companies have moved a large part of their operations to the public cloud, some are choosing to distribute part of their workloads between the public cloud and private clouds. The reasons for this distribution may be varied: costs, privacy, or specific access requirements.
However, he believes that this trend will continue to grow, because “hybrid clouds” combine public cloud services, such as those offered by Amazon, Microsoft or Google, with private cloud services, such as those offered by Cirion. These hybrid clouds allow businesses to take advantage of the best of both worlds: the scalability and flexibility of the public cloud and the control and security of the private cloud.
“Some technologies emerge with great expectations, many times their adoption and development can be unpredictable,” added Gianni Hanawa. “For example, the metaverse was a trend that gained popularity before the pandemic, but was then slowed, shifting the focus towards regenerative artificial intelligence.”
Hanawa highlights that quantum computing is another emerging technology that presents great potential but also great challenges, such as the need for specialized hardware .
“We are always aware of what is happening in the market today and in the medium term. Things change very quickly, but based on what we see happening in the market we plan how to be able to accompany all these new waves,” concluded Hanawa.
