Chile's Permitting Breakthrough: From 12 Months to 6

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The episode discusses Chile's permitting reforms and Equinix's growth in Santiago's data center market.

This episode is in Spanish. English + Spanish summary below. 📊 Get more market insights HERE 🤝 Speak with someone from our global data team HERE 🖥️ Book a platform demo HERE In this episode of datacenterHawk's Latin America podcast series, Analyst Daniel Correia and Regional Director Steve Sasse speak with Francisco Basoalto, Managing Director of Equinix Chile and Peru, at Equinix's ST2 facility in Santiago. Basoalto describes how Equinix has grown its retail colocation share in Santiago to roughly 38% since acquiring Entel's data center assets in 2022, investing in carrier neutrality, interconnection, and new capacity, including Santiago's first liquid cooling-capable facility for AI workloads. The conversation covers Chile's recent reform to environmental permitting thresholds, which could cut approval timelines from over a year to roughly six months, as well as the structural advantages driving Santiago's growth: a significant renewable energy surplus, strong connectivity, and political stability across administrations. Despite hyperscale buildouts from AWS, Microsoft, and Google, all demand remains concentrated in Santiago, though an upcoming Asia-South America submarine…

People in this episode

Hosts: Daniel Correia, Steve Sasse

Guest: Francisco Basoalto

Topics covered

• data centers
• environmental permitting
• colocation
• renewable energy
• Santiago
• Latin America

Keywords

• Chile
• Equinix
• data centers
• permitting
• Santiago
• renewable energy
• AI workloads
• colocation
• submarine cable

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Equinix, Entel, AWS, Microsoft, Google

Places: Chile, Santiago

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