The company is studying the creation of a data center for AI and another facility in Montevideo to support the company's development.
Uruguay's government-owned telecommunications company, Antel, has announced that it wants to expand its infrastructure with two new data centers.
The announcement was made this week by the company's president, Alejandro Paz, during his visit to the Ing. José Luis Massera data center.
According to the executive, the company is studying the creation of a data center for AI workloads, and another facility in Montevideo, though details weren't shared.
On the creation of a data center for AI, Paz noted the importance of sovereignty: "The engines of this technology operate with sensitive processors, and it is extremely important that the sensitive data generated remains in the country, while the training and processing of this data is in Uruguay," he said.
Antel is also studying the possibility of having a new data center in Montevideo, to expand the company's development, for which the company is analyzing a particular location or in distributed areas.
Pablo Álvarez, vice-president of the company, pointed out that thanks to the development of the company's own data centers, the company can offer more services, allowing "scaling towards other types of business" and defended the importance of the management of telecommunications and technology solutions "from the point of view of Uruguayan sovereignty."
Antel's announcement represents, in addition to a technical improvement, a national strategy of technological sovereignty, economic development, and international positioning. If it becomes a reality, the country will become a key player in the Latin American technological ecosystem.
Antel currently operates three data centers. The company's Pando data center is Tier III certified by the Uptime Institute, in addition to ISO 20000 and ISO 9000 certifications. The facility has four data rooms and a modular growth with a final capacity for more than 1,000 racks.
