Data center campus

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

5 GW

0.05 GW

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 102 tracked campuses 94th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 3,848,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Scala AI City capacity claims
				Source
Announced	4.75 GW	2025-05-01	claimed	press release
Contracted	5 GW	2025-05-01	reported	journalist report
Under construction	0.05 GW	2025-06-01	claimed	press release

Key facts

announced

Lifecycle

4.75 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

Scala Data Centers

Developer

Location

Grid

Land

Announced-to-energized gap

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

MME grid authorization (company): May 14 2025 Scala said Brazil's Ministry of Mines and Energy authorized a 5 GW ramp-up connection of Scala AI City to the National Interconnected System (SIN), described as one of the largest energy authorizations for a Brazilian data-center project (Scala via PR Newswire, May 14 2025)
Full buildout capacity / site (company): Company says at full buildout the campus will provide 4.75 GW across a 10 million m2 site in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, announced Sep 2024 at Palacio Piratini in Porto Alegre (Scala via PR Newswire, May 14 2025)
Phase 1 IT / investment (company): Phase 1 planned at 54 MW initial IT capacity with about BRL 3 billion (USD 500 million) investment, and over 3,000 direct and indirect jobs cited. Fully built out, company says total investment could reach BRL 500 billion (Scala via PR Newswire, May 14 2025)
Energy / latency pitch (company): Positioned on 100% renewable certified energy with PPAs through at least 2039, circular-economy design, and sub-80 ms latency to North America via powershoring / Malbec cable context in company materials (Scala via PR Newswire, May 14 2025)
Sponsor / backer (company): Scala Data Centers is backed by DigitalBridge; company cites over BRL 12 billion invested and roughly 200 MW installed/in-development plus a landbank exceeding 12 million m2 across four countries (Scala via PR Newswire, May 14 2025)

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The story of Scala AI City

Announced capex: $50B
Grid: other · Not published beyond a sourcing claim: Scala says the campus runs on 100 percent renewable certified energy and cites abundant local supply as a reason for choosing the site, but the announcement carries no grid connection, authorisation or interconnection detail. It opens at 54 MW against a 4,750 MW ambition.

Derived

Cost per MW: $11M/MW

Every figure is one row in the ledger below with its source. Derived rows are pure arithmetic on the rows above (not new claims). Absent lines mean the fact isn't on record yet.

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: Not published beyond a sourcing claim: Scala says the campus runs on 100 percent renewable certified energy and cites abundant local supply as a reason for choosing the site, but the announcement carries no grid connection, authorisation or interconnection detail. It opens at 54 MW against a 4,750 MW ambition.
Water: Zero water in cooling, per the operator. Scala says the campus uses refrigerant-based liquid cooling and targets a water usage effectiveness of zero, meaning no water in the cooling systems at all. That is a design target published at announcement, on a site of more than 1,730 acres opening at 54 MW.

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, interconnection is Not published beyond a sourcing claim: Scala says the campus runs on 100 percent renewable certified energy and cites abundant local supply as a reason for choosing the site, but the announcement carries no grid connection, authorisation or interconnection detail. It opens at 54 MW against a 4,750 MW ambition.. 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.

Brazil ANAC DEPAC: Drone Registration and Operational Authorization Frameworkregistration · 2026-02-01 · Brazil

Investment, workforce and specs

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

Timeline

Aug 2026
party added
financier: DigitalBridge
Oct 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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DEPLOY. (2026). Scala AI City: AI data center campus record. Retrieved October 4, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/scala-ai-city-eldorado-do-sul

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