Terranova Praia Grande data center campus (proposed)

Name: Terranova Praia Grande data center campus (proposed)
Address: BR

Proposed

Brazil · 1 project · Last reported 2026-08-25

Summary

Terranova, an Actis-backed Latin American hyperscale data center platform, has proposed a campus on a site of about one million square metres in Praia Grande on the São Paulo coast, close to the city's submarine cable landing point. It holds a land-control contract and has asked Brazil's grid operator ONS for 450 MW of grid access; the land purchase will close only if ONS approves. In February 2026 Terranova's chief executive estimated a first phase of roughly 350 MW of IT capacity. No investment figure or construction timeline has been disclosed, and an August 2026 report still described the purchase as awaiting ONS approval.

Source record as of 2026-08-25 · Details and sources

Location

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Projects (1)

Terranova Praia Grande data center campus (proposed)

Proposed last observed as of 2026-08-25 · Reported status

Location: Praia Grande, São Paulo, BR. Sources name the city of Praia Grande and say the site is near its submarine cable landing point, without an address. The point is the city coordinate from the Praia Grande Wikipedia article. TELETIME; Construction Review Online; Wikipedia

Capacity, investment and other figures

Measure	Value	Scope	As of	Notes	Sources
Power capacity	450 MW	Planned · Campus · Grid connection	2026-08-25	Grid access requested from the Operador Nacional do Sistema Elétrico (ONS); no approval had been reported in the sources.	TELETIME; Construction Review Online
Power capacity	about 350 MW	Planned · Phase · It load · First phase (if ONS approves)	2026-02-19	Rough estimate given by Terranova's chief executive; later phases were said to be possible given the size of the land.	TELETIME
Land area	about 100 hectares	Reported · Campus	2026-02-19	Reported as about one million square metres, held under a land-control contract; the purchase depends on ONS approving the grid request.	TELETIME; Construction Review Online

Companies and organizations

Name	Role	Notes	Sources
Terranova	Developer	Hyperscale data center platform backed by the investment fund Actis.	TELETIME; Construction Review Online
Actis	Investor	Fund backing Terranova.	TELETIME

Timeline

Date	Event	Actual or planned	Notes	Sources
2026-02	Other	Actual	Terranova disclosed the project, its land-control contract and its 450 MW request to ONS, and said it expected an ONS answer by early May 2026.	TELETIME

Power supply

Type	Description	Sources
Grid	Terranova requested 450 MW of access to the national grid from ONS.	TELETIME; Construction Review Online

Only trade press covers this site; the August 2026 Construction Review article relays the February 2026 Teletime interview, so the two are not fully independent. Completion of the land purchase depends on ONS approving the 450 MW request; no source gives a date for it, and no ONS decision had been reported. Terranova's company-wide plan of about USD 1.5 billion over Brazil, Mexico and Chile is not a figure for this site. City coordinates come from Wikipedia (s3), used only for the map point. Terranova's Campinas campus is a separate record (terranova-campinas).

Sources for these details

Terranova terá megaestruturas e estuda expansão de data centers no Brasil — TELETIME; 2026-02-19
Terranova breaks ground on 216 MW data centre in Campinas, São Paulo — Construction Review Online; 2026-08-25 · Archived source
Praia Grande — Wikipedia; publication date not stated · Archived source

Companies

Developer: Terranova (unknown scope) evidence
Developer: Terranova (unknown scope) evidence
Investor: Actis (unknown scope) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Terranova breaks ground on 216 MW data centre in Campinas, São Paulo evidence row
Construction Review Online · published 2026-08-25 · Trade publication

Locator

Locality reference only · Compiled location reference · locality evidence

Source checks

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Status age at review: 63 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: -24.00611, -46.40278
Geometry licence: source-terms-not-recorded
Use scope: Locality reference only
Scope class: locality
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Project
Method: imported_reference_point
Derivation: imported_reference_point
Precision scope: Sources name the city of Praia Grande and say the site is near its submarine cable landing point, without an address. The point is the city coordinate from the Praia Grande Wikipedia article.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
Geometry evidence: f170ffcd

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.

Evidence for Terranova Praia Grande data center campus (proposed)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Praia Grande Archived copy	Wikipedia Other	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record	not stated	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	Wikipedia	`a883cbd4e203d472d924de56494ff92434af66d97b1ea376f5e847352012e21b` Factual source record; not the publisher page
Terranova breaks ground on 216 MW data centre in Campinas, São Paulo Archived copy	Construction Review Online Trade publication	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer	2026-08-25	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	Construction Review Online	`21c78002da9c6963d6373f548197496b08becea0fc03c3234c6511c8da8d6ed1` Factual source record; not the publisher page
Terranova terá megaestruturas e estuda expansão de data centers no Brasil Archived copy	TELETIME Trade publication	Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Land Area, Metric: Power Capacity, Milestone: Other, Power Source: Grid, Role: Developer, Role: Investor	2026-02-19	2026-10-09	source-terms-not-recorded	TELETIME	`deebe7ac484ec26e716dd666586cbd206696d5eb11ae86e9fa7c35dac2213b50` Factual source record; not the publisher page

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Terranova Praia Grande data center campus (proposed) [site vcc-site-3a91e1c2ee3ef8dbd116]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-3a91e1c2ee3ef8dbd116/

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