Gtd Colombia will invest 20 million dollars in the installation of a 6,200-square-meter data center with a network deployment of more than 500 kilometers that will significantly increase storage and computing capacities in the region.
The information was provided by Fernando Maturana, general manager of Gtd Colombia, which is a company with more than 40 years of experience in the telecommunications market that maintains operations in different countries such as Spain, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
Maturanda pointed out that the company carried out an evaluation of the different cities where the investment could be made and the study determined that Barranquilla has the ideal characteristics for the installation and development of these telecommunications projects.
Strategic location
Barranquilla, the capital of the Atlantic, has a great growth and development of commercial activities, with a privileged location for the promotion of telecommunications projects, specifically those related to data storage because it presents a “high connectivity with redundancy, aligned time zone with the USA and the entry of 4 submarine cables”.
In addition, the city has a great potential for “solar and wind energy” that makes it an attraction for international organizations that are looking for renewable energy sources. Also, its proximity to the Magdalena River facilitates the installation of cooling systems necessary to supply cooling to data centers.
Omar Téllez, high councilor for Technology and Entrepreneurship of the District, highlighted the reasons of the city to lead the digital transformation of the country with the execution of this megaproject. He explained that the increase in demand for “data transfer throughout South America” generates the need to create “hyper scale data centers.”
Among other factors that make Barranquilla a strategic territory for the creation of data centers are: it has a diversified economy; it has a potential of 10 million consumers; it will have the most extensive underground electrical interconnection network in the country and is a “central point among the three current HSDC projects in Latin America, projected in Mexico, Brazil and Chile.”
M. Rodríguez
Source: valoraanalitik.com
