Enabling and facilitating Brazil's data-centre decade — at the moment it is being decided. A year of intelligence on the policy, capital and grid; convened in the rooms where the right people sit, in the cities where the deals get done.
2025 market size. Forecast to reach roughly $10B by 2030 at current growth rates.
Of national IT load sits in São Paulo. The remainder is concentrated around Fortaleza, Rio and Brasília.
Annual growth rate through 2030. Brazil is the fastest-scaling LatAm data-centre market.
The market window opened by the 2025 ReData reform will not stay open forever. The next two to three years decide where Brazilian compute lands, on what regulatory terms, and with what consequences for sovereignty. Enable Brazil exists to convene the rooms that decide those questions, while they are still being decided.
At the centre of the story: Brazil holds 1 GW of installed data-centre capacity, a 2.8 GW active pipeline, and a 9.8 per cent annual growth rate — anchored by São Paulo (52 per cent of national load) and a fast-emerging northeast cluster around Fortaleza's submarine cable landings. The 2025 ReData reform unlocked tax incentives for compliant operators, triggering pledged commitments at scale: $37.7B from ByteDance in Pecém, $2.8B from Microsoft, $1.8B from AWS. There is no senior independent platform mapping where this capital actually lands, on what regulatory terms, and with what consequences for sovereignty over compute.
Growth equity, private equity, sovereign wealth with LatAm mandate. US-based family offices with Brazil exposure. Brookfield, Pátria, Actis, Blackstone, DigitalBridge, KKR, BlackRock/GIP, Macquarie.
Brazilian companies scaling internationally. Data-centre operators — Ascenty, OData, Equinix Brazil, Scala, Elea. US corporate leaders with live Brazil operations.
Brazil desks at major US banks. M&A partners at firms with active Brazil practices — Mattos Filho, Cleary, White and Case, Lefosse. Strategy consultancies with LatAm leadership.
Chambers of commerce, consular staff, think tanks, trade bodies, select government figures. BNDES, CORFO and the development-finance institutions sitting behind the capital.
The 20-page emerging-markets curtain-raiser publishes gratis in September 2026. Eight markets — including Brazil — placed in the global emerging-AI-infrastructure context the flagship report builds out from. More on the curtain-raiser →
Survey design, initial round of twenty founding-contributor interviews, founding partners confirmed. The underlying research architecture is locked in.
150-plus structured survey responses across the Brazil-facing executive cohort. A second round of deep interviews, on the record where possible. First interim content published.
The Northern Hemisphere moment. A morning anchor event for 30–40 senior guests during Brazil Week, followed by a private dinner for twelve to fourteen in the evening. Hosted at an iconic midtown venue. Report preview and headline findings released to the room.
Analysis, drafting, commissioned essays from named contributors. Partner and contributor review cycle.
The culmination. A half-day convening in São Paulo for 100 senior participants. The full report released publicly on the day. The working library from the year goes live.
Published Q3 2027 · digital and print
May · Brazil Week
Q3 · the flagship
Data, Power, Sovereignty publishes Q3 2027. It is the document of record produced by twelve months of primary research, four serialised quarterly chapters and two convenings — not a synthesis of public sources.
Nine chapters across policy, capital, grid & geography, and operators. Original survey data. Forty-plus named interviews. Published in English and Portuguese, digital and premium print.
The report serialised across the year — Policy & Regulation (Q3 2026), Capital & Commitments (Q4), Grid & Geography (Q1 2027), Operators & People (Q2). Each stands alone.
Original survey of operators, developers, capital allocators, regulators and ecosystem suppliers. Five cohorts. Designed for citation; anonymised at segment level.
Cohort and partner readers receive invitations to the New York convening (May 2027, 25 guests) and the São Paulo flagship launch (Sep 2027, 100 guests).
The Brazilian financial press, Reuters and the FT cover the Brazilian data-centre buildout well. The report is not a substitute. It is what comes after a careful read of those sources.
The flagship report, the four quarterly chapters, the dataset, and the editor briefing call. For institutional readers with an active mandate in the Brazilian market.
By invitation
Reader access plus invitations to the May 2027 New York convening and the September 2027 São Paulo flagship launch. Working roundtables on the side of the public sessions.
By invitation
Cohort access plus a named position in one of the four partnership tiers — sponsorship, editorial seat at the table, and the introduction architecture that comes with it.
By invitation · small number per cycle
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Enable Brazil is in active build. We are speaking with founding partners, confirming contributors and locking venues. If your organisation has a stake in what Brazil does next — we would like to hear from you.