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Scala AI City

Scala AI City is an AI data center campus developed by Scala Data Centers in Rio Grande do Sul, Eldorado do Sul. 4.75 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Announced · Scala Data Centers · Private land · other · Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Track Scala AI City

Capacity: announced vs energized

Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 4.75 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

7th-largest announced of 87 tracked campuses93th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 3,848,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)
Scala AI City capacity claims
Source
Announced4.75 GW2025-05-01claimedpress release
Contracted5 GW2025-05-01reportedjournalist report
Under construction0.05 GW2025-06-01claimedpress release

Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

4.75 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Scala Data Centers

Developer

Brazil

Location

other

Grid

private land

Land

4.75 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

On the data center map

No mappable coordinate is recorded for Scala AI City yet. Location: Eldorado do Sul.

The deal

financier
DigitalBridge · Owner/backer of Scala Data Centers
developer
Scala Data Centers
operator
Scala Data Centers

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
other
Interconnection

Why here

Scala AI City sits on private land in Rio Grande do Sul, Eldorado do Sul. It connects to the other grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Full campus pitched investment (R$300bn)
$50B journalist report
Phase 1 investment (R$3bn)
$500M press release

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

Investment, workforce and specs

Construction jobs
over 3,000 direct and indirect jobs from Phase 1 source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    financier: DigitalBridge
  3. Aug 2026
    Current: Announced

Sources

f16e490e-0625-4aba-89cc-c734381df6fb · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Common questions

What is Scala AI City?
Scala AI City is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Eldorado do Sul. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will Scala AI City use?
Scala AI City has 4.75 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building Scala AI City?
Scala Data Centers is recorded as a party to Scala AI City on the DEPLOY registry.
Is Scala AI City operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Scala AI City is announced but not yet built. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Scala AI City?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Scala AI City: AI data center campus record. Retrieved August 20, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/scala-ai-city-eldorado-do-sul

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