Boom data center brasiliano grazie a aziende energie rinnovabili, scoperta indagine. (pagina 3)
Pubblicato il da Luigi Salemi - Green
…nácio Lula da Silva signed a law exempting data centers from several taxes on equipment purchases if they meet water efficiency criteria and use renewable or low-emission energy. In April 2026, Brazil’s foreign trade agency, Apex, organized a roundtable in the U.S. to attract foreign investment for sustainable data centers. “Renewable energy companies are able to sign long-term power purchase agreements with data centers and Big Tech firms,” Mikaelle Farias, a climate activist and renewable energy engineer at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, told Mongabay and The Intercept Brasil. “This guarantees the sale of that surplus for 15 or 20 years without needing to feed it into the interconnected grid or losing the energy.”
However, the rollout of data centers raises problems for local communities. For example, a wind power company in the northeastern state of Bahia asked to connect their plant to nine data centers. The area is home to a Quilombola community, a traditional territory founded by enslaved and formerly enslaved Afro-Brazilians. In fact, at least 29 municipalities with plans for data centers…