Scala AI City

Also known as Scala AI City Eldorado do Sul; Scala AI City Rio Grande do Sul

Operated by Scala Data Centers at Eldorado do Sul Site (Scala) .

Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.

Measured performance

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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.

What this machine is made of

One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.

Role	Part	Supplier at build	Quantity	Confidence	Source
Integrator	- Scala Data Centers builds the Scala AI City campus, 54 MW initial IT capacity with liquid cooling for racks above 150 kW	Scala Data Centers	-	Reported	scaladatacenters.com
Cooling	- Liquid cooling system, PUE not exceeding 1.2 and zero water use effectiveness design target	Scala Data Centers	-	Reported	scaladatacenters.com

AI datacenter metrics

Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.

Metric	Value	As of	Basis	Note	Source
Stated investment	0.5 USD bn	2026-10	Operator stated	Initial investment of 500 million dollars for phase one (about 3 billion reais).	scaladatacenters.com itforum.com.br
IT power	54 MW	2026-10	Design target	Initial IT capacity of the first phase; expansion potential of 4,750 MW.	scaladatacenters.com itforum.com.br
PUE	1.2	2026-10	Design target	Design ceiling: PUE not exceeding 1.2.	scaladatacenters.com
Rack power	150 kW	2026-10	Design target	Design supports AI training racks exceeding 150 kW; 150 is the stated lower bound.	scaladatacenters.com
WUE	0 L/kWh	2026-10	Design target	Design target of zero water use effectiveness.	scaladatacenters.com

The read

Scala Data Centers' planned AI data center city in Eldorado do Sul, about 32 km from Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on roughly 7 million square meters of land. A letter of intent with the state government was signed on 11 September 2024 for an initial 500 million dollar phase delivering 54 MW of IT capacity, with expansion potential to 4.75 GW. The design targets AI training racks above 150 kW with liquid cooling, a PUE not exceeding 1.2 and zero water use effectiveness, and runs on 100 percent renewable power. A municipal law of 18 December 2024 enabled the site. The status date is that law; no later construction-status page was fetched, and neither source names a GPU vendor or count. The tier is reported. It has never submitted an HPL result.

Timeline

2024-09-11 Announced source

Site & facility

Eldorado do Sul Site (Scala)

Location: Eldorado do Sul, RS, Brazil

scaladatacenters.com itforum.com.br

Change history

2026-10-04 Added Scala AI City (Scala Data Centers)

Source check

We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.

Cited source	Result	Found on the page
itforum.com.br	names system only	-
scaladatacenters.com	could not be fetched	-

Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.